This paper discusses the presentations of the sexual in our contemporary age. First, a brief evolutionary summary of sexuality is given and after that, based on contributions by Freud, Ferenczi and other authors, it describes the unusual paths both the sexual and sexuality have taken in man. The paper further discusses the two dimensions - in a quantum sense of the term - psychoanalysis works with and reveals how instinctive conservatism is repeated still today, although in diverse ways, making the history of man an eternal recurrence. Eventually, the paper depicts how contemporary discourses on sexuality continue to influence cultural sexual morality in their attempts to control sexuality.
The sexual; sexuality; discourse; contemporaneity