ABSTRACT
Ordinarily in his writings, the pre-eminent psychoanalyst and former IPA President Otto Kernberg shows the precision of a surgeon and parsimony of a banker. His elucidation of erotic desire, however, is strikingly different in tone. It has the music of corporeality and the poetry of longing. Kernberg's (1992) declaration that "a lover's body gradually becomes the geography of personal meanings" is simply breathtaking. Paraphrasing and extrapolating this literary elegance to a different context has led to the tide of our book here: The Geography of Meanings.
