Feminine Sensuality by Mariam Alizade

Author:Mariam Alizade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karnac Books

Transference: a sort of regression and repression

It is interesting to consider the three psycho-corporeal methods described by Freud (1905d) to account for the arrival at feminine sexuality that begins with the metamorphoses of puberty: a “sort of regression”, repression, and transference. The woman’s erogenous body must modify its function-dynamics, must abandon some ways of obtaining pleasure in order to stumble upon others and discover the vagina. Even if it does not explain what type of regression is referred to, it is possible to apply it to the idea of a regression to the primal erogenous matrix described earlier, and to evoke the thalassic regression studied so elegantly by Ferenczi (1924) in his investigation of the intensity of devolution in an act of love. Freud (1905d) seems to attribute this regression specifically to the woman. He writes: “Since the new sexual aim assigns very different functions to the two sexes, their sexual development now diverges greatly. That of males is the more straightforward and more understandable, while that of females actually enters upon a kind of involution” (p. 207).

Another mechanism that affects the body is the repression of the excitation of the clitoris. This point is fairly debatable. Although Freud was limited in his statement, its redeeming feature is, as I understand it, the implicit idea of a radical change in the perception of the erogenous sensations. Concentration on a single organ (clitoris) is abandoned to make possible the diffusion of eroticism. The clitoris becomes one more source of voluptuousness, not the main or only one. This polemic aspect of feminine sexuality is the fruit of a biased theory that proclaims that the woman must forget the excitability of the clitoris, that part or “piece of masculine sexuality” (Freud, 1905d, p. 221). As I understand it, there would be no repression of masculine sexuality in the woman, as Freud maintains, but silence on all things masculine (based on the resolution of phallic competence), which disappears as a useless remnant on the arrival at feminine eroticism. The clitoris, which is also feminine, transfers its erogeneity to other zones, which are ready to play their part freely and activate the experience of giving oneself a body. As far as transference is concerned, it is a very important erogenous movement. To transfer means to displace. The vagina “learns to feel” in various ways. From the theory of the cloaca it is not difficult to venture that everything “between the legs” of a woman is the source of many pleasures. It is a bodily area rich in erogenous zones and secretions: fluid, blood, faeces, urine…. There is transference from different zones, both from the clitoris and from other previously eroticized zones such as the anus and the breasts. Freud uses a fine image to refer to this transmission: “… just as … pine shavings can be kindled in order to set a log of harder wood on fire” (1903d, p. 221).

Luquet-Parat (1973) writes: “From the point of view of erogeneity, the anal phase is rich and complex and its resonance is great on future feminine sexuality.

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