ABSTRACT
In Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) Freud prefigured what later would be constituted as Freudian thought. Before he wrote this text, Freud thought of the sexual in mechanical terms, but not yet as sexuality. At that time he held the idea of an accumulation of energy (that would later be named drive) inserted into a reflex arc dynamic. This accumulation of energy then constituted different pathologies. He classified sexuality as a need (ananké) that demanded a specific action, much as hunger is a need.
