Freedom of pleasures independent of sexual development stripped sexuality’s explanatory power.

Evidence

However, the recognition that there is a freedom of pleasures independent of sexual development as Freud described it effectively stripped sexuality of its autonomous explicative power. Another body appeared that would not and could not be folded into this interpretative matrix. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4203

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the psychoanalysis debate: the body that resists the sexual interpretive matrix — the wounded/new-wounded body. — connects to: Sexual liberation has produced de-sexualized sex reduced to physiological function — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 180; Fromm argued unrestricted sexual gratification would actually ease manipulation rather than liberate — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 377; In Freudian terms a girl’s sexual development can stall into frigidity or homosexuality. (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Sexual liberation has produced de-sexualized sex reduced to physiological function #expands (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 180