Freud og sexologien

Abstract

Freud always sees sexuality as psychosexuality, but his broad concept of sexuality has been narrowed down in much later sexology: Firstly through the reduction of sexuality into genitality of Reich and the Sexual Reform Movement of the interwar period; later on through Kinseys reduction of Freud's concept of normality into the question of statistical frequency and latest through Masters & Johnson's reduction of sexuality into physical reactions. Freud's far-reaching, but complicated psychologic theory has been replaced by a simple, but restricted behaviorism, which cannot conceptualize the unconcious aspects of sexuality, by Masters &
Johnson. Such reductions express a neglection of the psyche. If sexology took up Freud's theory of sexuality, it could avoid the pitfall of reductionism.