Sexuality and aggression

This chapter is made up almost entirely of reflections that have yet to undergo “theoretical” organization. ¹ I should like to begin by considering aggression and, in particular, sexuality not as referring to their manifest content but mainly in terms of their story-telling aspect, that is to say the particular “dialect” used primarily for speaking about relational vectors of the field, which reflect the patient's and analyst's forms of mental functioning in the session and all the associated emotional configurations (potential primal scenes of the field; Fornari, 1975) to which they give rise.