Erections without desire

The true dysfunction is not in the penis that falls but in a culture that demands permanent erection as proof of subjective existence.

Erections Without Desire

Young men take blue pills to sustain encounters where their bodies no longer listen to what they desire. They seek tireless organs while their minds drift away from the erotic scene. Paradoxically, the more they guarantee physical potency, the more they demonstrate their subjective impotence to inhabit the encounter with the unpredictability of the other.

Viagra functions as an orthopedics of desire in times where sexuality has mutated from experience to performance. This transformation reveals the perverse inversion of the Freudian mandate: we no longer repress the sexual to sustain culture but instead medicalize sex to comply with the contemporary imperative of mandatory enjoyment. The pharmacological success is a symptom of symbolic failure.

Contemporary clinical practice receives subjects who confuse eroticism with hydraulics. Their chemically modified bodies execute perfect acts that do not concern them subjectively. The analyst faces the task of helping them reconnect with the dimension of desire they have outsourced to the pharmaceutical industry, restoring the dignity of a desire that includes the possibility of intervals, failures, and singularities.

Psychotherapy

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