Sex

Here is another reason to avoid psychoanalysis, it seems. It reduces everything to sex, and, in the process of doing that, it reinforces sexist ideas about the nature of femininity, ideas that feminism quite understandably rebels against. In this chapter I describe how existentialism provides another frame for thinking about science, and how it opens the doors to the Frankfurt School, specifically to the work of Erich Fromm, and then, in more explicitly activist vein, to Wilhelm Reich. You will see why I could have even been seen as a Reichian at one point, but one still allergic to biological essentialist and reductionist accounts of sex in clinical psychoanalysis.