Freud’s evolutions all subordinate the aleatory event to the causal principle of sexuality

Evidence

Freud’s response to these fundamental questions is not univocal, and, in the years following his studies on hysteria, a series of transformations will displace his definition of the event. But these modifications will take place under the sign of sexuality, which, in the process, will gain its definitive stature and legitimacy as a principle and a causal character. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1762

Categorization

• QUESTION: This sets up the whole book: does sexuality as master cause foreclose the event’s real agency? Worth tracking how Malabou dismantles the ‘sign of sexuality.’
• XREF: connects to: Freud’s libido theory absorbs even organic brain damage into sexual etiology — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2446; Freud held psychic life autonomous from cerebral causes — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2055; Sexual etiology of neurosis also implicates a drive toward pure negation. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2204 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Freud’s libido theory absorbs even organic brain damage into sexual etiology #exemplifies (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2446
• Freud held psychic life autonomous from cerebral causes #corroborates (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2055