Fear of death is immanent to sexuality through shared separation

Evidence

However, we can now see that there is an indissoluble relation between sexuality and death to the extent that death is prefigured in castra­ tion. Haunted by the fear of loss—loss of a member, a part of the body, or loss of self—sexuality is itself structured by the anticipation of separation and death. The fear of death is thus not an affect that draws the psyche beyond or away from sexual causality, but rather is the immanent manifesta­ tion of the distinctive feature of both sexuality and death: separation. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2724

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the hinge concept of ‘separation’ that unifies sexual etiology and death-anxiety in Freud.
• XREF: This unification-by-separation is the Freudian move Malabou’s brain-based account challenges — core of the book’s debate with psychoanalysis. — connects to: Death thoughts and physical sexuality suppress each other in a reciprocal loop — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 593; Religious disembodiment stems from fear of bodily mortality — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 552; People unaware of their death fears are nonetheless governed by layered psychological defenses — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 629 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Death thoughts and physical sexuality suppress each other in a reciprocal loop #contradicts (0.80) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 593
• Religious disembodiment stems from fear of bodily mortality #expands (0.75) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 552
• People unaware of their death fears are nonetheless governed by layered psychological defenses #expands (0.75) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 629