Reliance, or Maternal Eroticism

This article is an invitation into the specific impulse economy of the “multiverse” of maternal eroticism, what the author calls “reliance.” Both passion and vocation, maternal eroticism designates above all a state of urgency of life, a quality of energy that is always already psycho-somatic within human beings, and which translates the libidinal pulse into tenderness and the capacity to accompany the living through the menace of mortality, up to death. This article thus proposes to create new meta-psychological concepts in order to develop, starting from the point of view of the sexuality of the female lover, the elucidation of maternal eroticism in all of its specificity and without which the emancipation of the female subject can only be an ethics-deprived ideology.