This text brings up the debate on “Sexuality and prejudice” to show that sexuality remains a profound enigma for human beings. Despite the many “evolutions”, taboos and prejudice concerning sexuality still persist.
In oder to throw some light onto the question, the author makes a short historical review of occidental thought on sexuality since the beginning of the Christian Era up to the onset of the Psychiatric Discourse of the XIX Century. Then, the impact of Psychoanalytic theory on this School of Thinking is analysed. Based upon important psychoanalytical concepts – such as Repression and the Ego Ideals – the origins of prejudice are studied and their consequences discussed from both their social and clinic aspects.
The author points out that all sexual manifestations should be seen as private solutions that each particular Human being had to find in order to face the enigma of his, or her, own drive organisation.
Sexuality; prejudice; pervertions; ideals; repression