ABSTRACT

This chapter explores what mean by sexual life, what are its layers and accordingly the meanings that describe sexuality, especially in what relates to the ego. It presents the analysis of will and its egoic and egoless functions; the analysis of desires and instincts as they form habits and beliefs; and the analysis of egoless intentionality and sex. On a sexual level the two layers—egoless and egoic, not-operating and operating will—fluidly intertwine because of their peculiar form of intentionality, namely the intentionality of instincts and more specifically what Husserl called intentionality of copulation. E. Husserl describes the instinctive force of the intentionality of copulation as the one which moves matter toward procreation and the constitution of a Mitwelt. The chapter describes how sexual life arises as an egoless hyletic life that is put in motion by passive intentionality, coitus intentionality, and is transformed into active intentionality, namely a meaning-giving activity.