Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma

Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma proposes that asexuality is a libidinally founded desire for no sexual desire, a concept not included in psychoanalytic theory up to now. 

"Asexuality"  is defined as the experience of having no sexual attraction for another  person; as an emerging self-defined sexual orientation, it has received  practically no attention from psychoanalytic research. This book is the  first sustained piece of exploratory and theoretical research from a  Freudian-Lacanian perspective. Using Freudian concepts to understand the  intricacies of human sexual desire, this volume will also employ  Lacanian conceptual tools to understand how asexuality might sustain  itself despite the absence of Other-directed sexual desire. This book  argues that asexuality holds a mirror to contemporary sexualized society  which assumes sexual attraction and eroticism as the benchmarks for  experiencing sexual desire. It also argues that asexuality may be a  previously unrecognized form of human sexuality which can contribute new  understandings to the range and breadth of what it means to be a sexual  being. 

This book will be of interest to anyone in  the area of asexuality or sexuality – psychoanalysts, psychotherapists,  psychologists, psychiatrists, university lecturers, researchers,  students or those simply curious about the possibilities of the human  sex drive.