Sexuality: Drive and Relationship
Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Relationships, Interpersonal Relationships, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Human Sexuality
| Author: | Peter Philippson | ISBN: | 1230002400181 |
| Publisher: | Manchester Gestalt Centre | Publication: | June 25, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Peter Philippson |
| ISBN: | 1230002400181 |
| Publisher: | Manchester Gestalt Centre |
| Publication: | June 25, 2018 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
It has become a truism in psychotherapy writings to say that therapy is about the ‘lived-body’ (Körper) rather than the physical body (Leib), and the ‘phenomenal world’ rather than the physical world, and has thus reproduced the Cartesian mind-body split that Perls and Goodman were so keen to move away from. The human animal, with its appetites, skin and genitalia, is gone! So we are left with a cerebral version of sexuality which has lost its rawness and danger. The primary sexual organ is then the brain and our narrative capacity. I think it is useful for Gestaltists to go back and revisit the important place that Freud allocated to sex.
It has become a truism in psychotherapy writings to say that therapy is about the ‘lived-body’ (Körper) rather than the physical body (Leib), and the ‘phenomenal world’ rather than the physical world, and has thus reproduced the Cartesian mind-body split that Perls and Goodman were so keen to move away from. The human animal, with its appetites, skin and genitalia, is gone! So we are left with a cerebral version of sexuality which has lost its rawness and danger. The primary sexual organ is then the brain and our narrative capacity. I think it is useful for Gestaltists to go back and revisit the important place that Freud allocated to sex.
