The Experience of Sexual Leib in the Toxicomaniac: Phenomenological Premises

Abstract

It would be a naive and restrictive simplification to conceive human sexuality as a mixture of representations and reflexes rather than, basically, a global way of coexistence (of which the alter ego forms an integral part). In the conceptually of empirical psychology, sexuality is intended to be understood as an independent reflected functional apparatus, in which context it is possible to recognize organs anatomically defined, sources of pleasure feelings, functions physiologically determined, an object of sexual desire, adequate sensorial and sensitive stimulations, and representations which can be the stimuli, according to the laws governing the association of ideas, of imagina­tion or conditioned reflexes.