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Touching Becomes Touching: Mind, Body, and Sexuality in a New Relational Psychoanalysis—Reply to Discussions

In reply to discussions of his paper “‘If Someone Is There’: On Finding and Having One's Own Mind,” the author expands on Gentile's views of the creation of mind in its encounter with material and bodily reality. The author suggests that a new relational psychoanalysis that reckons with the body in the mind cannot escape reckoning with Freud's compelling understanding of sexual experiencing at the core and edge of our relational worlds. In sexuality, in one and the same moment, the paradox of the human mind and of human relationship is illuminated: the capacity to hold the other in mind, to hold them as the bestowers of our experience of agency; and at the very same time, to erase them as we privilege the desires of our minds, felt so urgently in our bodies.