Metabiological sexuality: from nature to language
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1990.v42.2.558Abstract
The enlightened concept of sexuality (especially sexual drive) can be qualified as a biological one, because, the base frame of reference is naturalistic. Drive is the voice of Nature and hence the object of desire coincides with what is considered natural and virtuous. By contrast, the Freudian concept of sexuality can be termed as metabiological, as the basic reference structure is linguistic. Freud conceives drive as a force which in each individual in mediated by chain representations (significant signs) stored in the psychic apparatus. This would explain the peculiarity and diversity of human desire. This metabiological concept of sexuality also is present in the Freudian distinction between the interest of the individual and those of the species, or between human impulse and drive and biological instinct.
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