ABSTRACT
Throughout Sigmund Freud's writings, the intertwining of body and psyche was elemental. As psychoanalysis has evolved since Freud's time, in a world that has changed so dramatically, the relationships among repression, infantile sexuality and the unconscious continue to demand rigorous exploration. It is undeniable today that in the evolution of psychoanalytic theorizing and the vast majority of current psychoanalytic thought, the body of the drives has suffered a virtual aphanisis. Rosemary Balsam highlights the importance of thinking about the body's contribution to gender, rather than continuing the familiar postmodern trend of repudiating biology and perpetuating the divide between the physical and the mental. Julia Kristeva defines the body as the psychosomatic construction that is formed as the speaking subject emerges in the relationship with the parental, where the parental is sexual difference, the third between the mother and the father.
