ABSTRACT
The fact that Jacqueline Schaeffer explores the aspects from the point of view of the feminine dimension should also be seen as fundamentally innovative. In most of Sigmund Freud's writings, the model of sexuality is that of the male orgasm, with the feminine dimension up until the end remaining for him an enigmatic "dark continent". Although feminine erotogenic masochism, "primary endurance", and fetishism are "sexual" and contribute to shaping adult sexuality, this does not mean that they are sexual and only sexual. If the sexual dimension was seen to be a post-traumatic psychic "solution", this was because of its ability to bind: as Freud often points out, Eros makes for intra-psychic binding. Theories of "object relations", which emphasize simply the manner in which drive-based issues influence the relationship between the self and the objects cathected, do not pay sufficient attention to the retroactive effect of the object's response on how the life of the drives is structured.
