Desexualization of Psychoanalysis
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.50
**BRING SEX BACK**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that contemporary psychoanalysis has systematically repressed sexuality — its foundational concern — in favor of object-relations, attachment, and relational frameworks, and that this desexualization constitutes both a clinical failure and a theoretical regression; Lacanian sexuation and Zupančič's reading of the sexual as inherently identity-disrupting are mobilized to diagnose this suppression and call for psychoanalysis to re-engage transgender discourse as a site of productive contestation.
the dramatic decline of psychoanalytic interest in the concept of psychosexuality, and even in the use of words concerning sexuality, amounting to a collective psychoanalytic rejection of sexuality. Fonagy states that the suppression of sexuality is psychoanalysis' 'open secret.'