Sexual etiology of neurosis also implicates a drive toward pure negation.

Evidence

As a result, to derive a neurosis from its sexual origin is not to reduce it to the pleasure principle. It is also to confront that which, in the neurosis, proceeds from the tendency toward pure negation. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2204

Categorization

• XREF: This recasts sexual causation so that it already includes destructive impetus — central to Malabou’s argument that psychoanalysis was never purely about the pleasure principle. — 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’s evolutions all subordinate the aleatory event to the causal principle of sexuality — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1762

Broader Connections

• Freud’s libido theory absorbs even organic brain damage into sexual etiology #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2446
• Freud’s evolutions all subordinate the aleatory event to the causal principle of sexuality #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1762