title: Sexualization and desexualization.
abstract: This paper is a reconsideration of the role of sexualization in psychoanalysis. After a review of the accepted definitions of sexualization as defense and/or part of normal sexuality, a new explanation is offered. This posits sexualization as a psychological manifestation of a structural deficit and suggests analytic treatment as a process of structuralization. These terms are defined and illustrated. A case example demonstrates the thesis, and some implications of this concept are discussed.
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authors.lastname: Goldberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008418:Masturbation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013359:Sublimation, Psychological; D014167:Transference, Psychology