1st Edition

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

By Gérard Pommier Copyright 2025
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1

On the metamorphic principle of bodies

Chapter 2

From autoerotism to autoerotism for two, on the way to… erotism

Chapter 3

Invariants and variables of human sexuality

Chapter 4

The dangers of ‘becoming feminine’

Chapter 5

Fundamental fantasies, organisers of sexual desire

Chapter 6

Where does the power of desire come from?

Chapter 7

From perversion to neurotic perversity

Chapter 8

Orgasm, perhaps

Chapter 9

What the study of the orgasm brings to psychoanalytic theory

Chapter 10

What never ends

Chapter 11

In search of the Sovereign Good

Biography

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.