Koray B.’s Reviews > The Many Faces of Eros: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Human Sexuality > Status Update

Intellectual terrorism; fanaticism in psychological community; biased normalisation of certain sexualities over others; blindness in psychological community that prevents them from thinking broadly; the analyst should cease to direct their own presuppositions, values and worldly beliefs on the patient; the analysts can use the opportunities of the profession to heal their own traumas.

Ethical considerations if a patient shows perverse signs that overrule one's consent such as pedophilia, sadism or rape; Western jurisdictions allow perverse sexual practices as long as consent is given by both parties; perverse tendencies that is dubious in legality need to be understood through psychoanalysis instead of annulling the process in order to heal them; analysts need to stand their ground of neutrality.

Using sexuality as an addiction and sexual fixation may be linked to the following cases exposed to the child during childhood: i) deliberate disrespect between two parents ii) abandonment of one parent iii) a parent deliberately withholds the child from making contact to another parent.

Inversion refers to homosexuality or transsexual behaviour, whereas perversion explains fetishism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, sadomashochism. All of them seem to derive from an inappropriate degree of closeness towards mother or father. The restriction of inversion or perversion may be felt as sterilisation.

Prenatal presuppositions which ultimately are conversed to behaviours affect child development. If a mother is over-anxious she will not grant a healthy distance from the child, and the child will eventually develop psychosomatic symptoms. A system eventually breaks free from Oedipal incestuous desires through creating sexual desire as well as deep love bonds in the adult phase. Every kind of somatisation is a clue.

Suppressed feelings in childhood trigger fixation, psychosomatic illnesses, aggression in sexuality, behavioural inconsistencies that resemble bipolar disorder & hysterical conversion. Instead of keeping the emotions suppressed, it is much more helpful to lash out the emotions including sexual remarks: this also helps the analyst during therapy to collect symbols and infer symbolic connections.

Ulcer, anorexia, panic attacks, bulimia, dermatological cases such as eczema, digestive and excreting issues may be related to psychosomatosis. Several cases are extremely related to Oedipal complex: the patients have a critically terrible relationship with their mothers.

Human creativity is based on the amalgamation of two sexes. If bisexual nature is not formed, or if it is polarised at one side, hiatus may be experienced. The notions of fate and destiny are explained in layers: generational trauma in upbringing may not be changed, yet psychological resilience and responsive personality can be changed, therefore any “hidden calendar” abnormalities can be linked to psychosomatism

The clinical case of severe sexual identity crisis caused by abandonment of a parent and over-fixation by the other, potentially leading to hiatus of creativity and belief in love. The patient often feels that they need to change in order to be loved. If they cannot find love, they have tendencies to develop abnormalities.

The link between sexuality and creativity: art might hold an expression of suppressed sexuality; a very detailed clinical case involving abandonment of a father and cannibalistic mother; traumatic primal scenes affect art generated and personal characteristics.