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Sexual [genital] love afforded him [man] the strongest experiences of satisfaction, and in fact provided him with the prototype of all happiness.
In the beginning, the dazzling, naive promise of a unique kind of discipline and practice. If psychoanalysis is that set of conceptual and methodological means able to penetrate the forms and laws of the unconscious as they rule over each individual destiny, what other practice has a field of study as provocative as that of unconscious sexuality?
What other practice has the mission of serving phenomena so strange that they obey a principle known in its economic aim as the pleasure principle?
A predestined pact between a method and its object — to put Eros into words.
The encounter between an instinct pushing ceaselessly on toward its pleasure objectives and an experimental protocol designed specifically to reveal and produce the psychic incarnation of that instinctual energy — this working alliance legitimized all ambitions.