What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love?: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy

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Gérard Pommier

What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love?

A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy

Gérard Pommier

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English

Routledge
25 October 2024

Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Social issues & processes; Sexual behaviour; Psychotherapy

Series: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)

What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often unrecognised psychic bisexuality.

Everyone chooses a gender by repressing another gender, which becomes the site of both an attraction and a conflict, a 'war of the sexes', the contingencies of which animate desire. Gérard Pommier explores phantasy, desire and perversion and their role in 'sexual machinery', before considering the question of orgasm. Pommier’s work demonstrates that the analysis of orgasm brings out a political dimension and that aspects of both social and personal life are illuminated by the study of how we think – consciously and unconsciously – about orgasm and the role we ascribe to it.

This book makes valuable contributions to the study of sexuality and will be of interest to all psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalysis, as well as those in the fields of gender studies, anthropology and psychology.

By: Gérard Pommier
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781032856599
ISBN 10: 1032856599
Series: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 25 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gérard Pommier (1941–2023) was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was Professor of Psychopathology at the University of Strasbourg, director of the journal La clinique lacanienne and co-founder of the European Foundation for Psychoanalysis.