ABSTRACT
The relationship between intimacy and sexuality is complex and therapists have long tried to elucidate the Gordian knot of intimacy and sexuality. Emotional intimacy and talk intimacy are not the same as erotic intimacy, which deserves and needs to be addressed separately, and worked with directly in order to create change. Intimacy is the space between two bodies, two souls, between feelings, and as long as this space exists—so does intimacy. But as soon as these bodies merge intimacy disappears and a one is created. Passion is the place where the water yearns for itself, knows itself. In French, orgasm is called la petite mort, meaning the little death. La petite mort, the little death that psychoanalysts can tolerate, is death in smaller doses. In orgasm there is moment of clarity; pleasure, surrendering to something bigger.
