ABSTRACT

Green deplores the absence of sexuality and the erotic from current psychoanalytic theory and practice. Instead, he demonstrates how human sexuality forms an ‘erotic chain’. The work of analysis, he argues, consists in following the dynamic movements of the erotic process, by ascertaining its links with other aspects of the psyche.

chapter 1|4 pages

Starting from the sexual

chapter 2|4 pages

Freud’s coherence

chapter 4|9 pages

Eros, front Vienna to London

chapter 6|4 pages

Maternal sexuality

chapter 7|8 pages

And woman?

chapter 8|7 pages

Jouissance according to Lacan and others

chapter 9|7 pages

Towards a Metabiology

chapter 11|9 pages

The thing and the chain

chapter 12|16 pages

Returning to origins: translation and drives

chapter 13|8 pages

Trieb

chapter 14|7 pages

Eros: drives of life or love

chapter 15|5 pages

Eros and Psyche

chapter 16|8 pages

Representation and the erotic

chapter 18|4 pages

Traumas: yesterday and today

chapter 19|9 pages

Sexuality in contemporary analysis

chapter 21|10 pages

Bisexuality and homosexualit(ies)

chapter 22|3 pages

A note on paedophilia

chapter 23|6 pages

Another translation

chapter 24|6 pages

Biosexuality

chapter 25|5 pages

The language of sex

chapter 26|7 pages

Cultural variations

chapter 27|5 pages

The double alterity

chapter 28|5 pages

Pause

chapter 29|3 pages

The chains of Eros

chapter 30|9 pages

Outline