Køn og seksualitet

Diskussion af nogle temaer i den psykoanalytiske seksualteori

Abstract

The relationship between »sex« and »sexuality« is followed through the history of psychoanalysis. A distinction is made between three steps, which are connected in a logical rather than a cronological way. (1) The first conception says that sexuality originates from sex. Especially the embryological explorations of the proces of sexual differentiation have legitimated the psychoanalytic theory of a general infantile sexuality. (2) Libido theory is constructed on its own theoretical basis. Libido is the psychic energy of the sexual drives, it is neutral regarding to the sexual difference, and it is analysed through concepts such as »primary processes«, »transpositions« and »vicissitudes« of the drives. (3) Sex and sexual difference are situated within the frames of the libido theory. Finally, different views are discussed concerning how gender identity and gender specific object choice are established, including
some of the controversies about thc status of the Oedipus complex and the castration complex.