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| J E P - Number 16 - Winter-Spring 2003 |
| Masochism and Sexuality
Jean Laplanche An interview by Jacques André |
Keywords: Masochism – Originary Sexual Passivity – Pleasure for Tension – Oedipus as Secondary – Translation Model Summary: The author’s thesis differs from Freud’s theory of a primary non-sexual masochism and of a death drive with a biological nature. For the author, masochism certainly takes on an original position in the field of sexual drives, due to the fundamental anthropological situation which places the infant face to face with an adult who has a sexual unconscious and is, therefore, active in his relationship with him. A sexual masochistic drive results from the infant’s attempt to translate the adult messages that overwhelm him. Masochism is at the heart of the human sexual drive, insofar as it seeks tension without discharging it, and it subsists as such in adult sexuality as well (preliminary pleasure). |
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