ABSTRACT
In effect, that the set of chain-links which joins together, also chains-up the one about whom they wind themselves, and subject him to his eroticism. This is not a new image: to speak of Eros is to speak of a power holding captive the man or woman overcome by it. It is indeed a matter of a chain, or of its other, more troubling image: the many-headed hydra. There remains the happiness which can only be obtained by a jouissance stronger than anything rational. There is thus the ‘chaining’ of the body to the object and to the aim pursued by sexuality. As for the object, one of the most complex of psychoanalytic ideas, heterogeneity is not enough, for it is divided into different components. The sexuality which Freud’s psychoanalysis brought to light is in question among psychoanalysts. Instead of fixing in place arbitrarily a set reference-point on the side of jouissance or fantasy.
