ABSTRACT
Sex is more than physical pleasure. It is emotional pleasure. The physical can express and satisfy the emotional because the physical experience is representing and expressing the emotional experience. Physical sexual experience can be a symbolic representation of emotional meaning. Sex is an enactment modality for modeling emotional meaning in physical sensory metaphors. There are many different emotional feelings and paradigms. They range from love to beauty, to joy, to love, to bonding, to power, to dominance, to control, to attachment, to independence. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book. The book focuses on the sensory experience of sex and the ego functions that organize it. It uses modern ego psychology and focuses on affect representations: their structures and organizations, their modalities and phenomenology, and their ego processes and organizing spectrums.
