Aktuell bok av Rosine Jozef Perelberg: Sexuality, Excess & Representation. Recenserad av Björn Sahlberg i Int. Journ. of Psychoanalysis vol 101.6.

Sexuality, Excess, and Representation,
by Rosine Jozef Perelberg. London: Routledge, 2020. 204pp. 

I would like to designate this ground-breaking work as “Contemporary Freudian”: it is fresh and contemporary, integrating a rich field of various psychoanalytic ideas on firm Freudian ground. Perelberg discusses many of Freud’s most important writings on both the topographical and the structural models of the mind. In addition, Perelberg integrates, in a masterful way, important aspects from the three traditions in the British Society – Independent, Contemporary Freudian and Kleinian – but especially Winnicott, who is an important source of inspiration. Sexuality, Excess, and Representation, like her previous book, Psychic Bisexuality: A French–British Dialogue, is also a truly “British–French dialogue”, where, among others, the voices of Lacan, André Green, Laplanche, the Botellas and Chabert can be heard. It is refreshing that Perelberg does not get bogged down in old controversies, either in Britain or in France: instead, she takes her inspiration from all the best sources available and, in the process, creates her own unique perspective. 

The concept of psychosexuality is at the centre of this book, which establishes a link between sexuality and the unconscious, understood through the dialectics of excess and representation. Perelberg makes her point clear immediately, in the Introduction, that throughout his writings Freud attempted to explore the relationship between the drives and their representations, the somatic and the psychic, and so corporeal experiences are at the very origin of the constitution of the psyche. 

Björn Sahlberg

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