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RELATED
THEORETICAL MATERIAL
Sandor
Ferenczi on sexual relations as restoration of lost harmony
Ferenczi, Sandor. Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality. New York: W.W. Norton
& Company, Inc.,1968.
Sandor
Ferenczi's theory examines the experience of sex as an expression of a
longing to restore a lost harmony, and the struggle to achieve it. Sexual
intercourse provides an environment in which the partners express longings
for a pre-birth experience.
According
to Ferenczi we attempt to achieve harmony, through the sexual act, by
"returning" to the mother's womb, where the painful disharmony
between the ego and the environment or external world no longer exists.
One is motivated to relive, not only the nourishing life in mother's womb,
but the struggle of our phylogenetic ancestors to adapt to land and air.
We bear, according to Ferenczi, not only the unconscious memory of our
immediate pre-birth life, but the unconscious memory of our prehistoric
life.
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