ABSTRACT
Since sexuality has been more openly and publicly expressed in society as a whole from the latter third of the twentieth century, psychoanalytic papers, books, and clinical presentations on the subject of sex and sexuality, paradoxically, have appeared less frequently. There have indeed been theoretical advances and shifts, most obviously around the development of object relations theory, attachment theory, narcissism, and Bion's notable contribution of theories of thinking, and these new models might appear to have gained in status and influence over Freud's psychosexual model of the mind and of the sexual aetiology of the neuroses. The apparent de-sexualisation of psychoanalysis led to exasperation in some Freudian circles. Andre Green was firm in standing with Freud in the belief that the unconscious is rooted in sexuality and destructiveness, and that our analysis of patients inevitably leads to these elements as we go below the tip of the iceberg.
