Freud made sexuality the exclusive legal cause of all neuroses.

Evidence

From the etiology of hysteria to that of the neuroses, sexuality is invested with the authority of law and causal character. In An Outline of Psychoanalysis, Freud shows that if, in theory, “any sort of libidinal demand might occasion the same repressions” and the same consequences as those caused by the sexual drive, “our observation shows us invariably, so far as we can judge, that the excitations that play this pathogenic part arise from the partial drives of sexual life.” The neuroses, therefore, must all be traced to their origins that concern the “noxae” impinging upon the sexual function. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2093

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names Freud’s ‘noxae’ affecting sexual function — the definitional core of his causal claim.
• XREF: connects to: Freud’s evolutions all subordinate the aleatory event to the causal principle of sexuality — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1762; Freud’s libido theory absorbs even organic brain damage into sexual etiology — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2446

Broader Connections

• Freud’s evolutions all subordinate the aleatory event to the causal principle of sexuality #corroborates (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1762
• Freud’s libido theory absorbs even organic brain damage into sexual etiology #exemplifies (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2446