‘It was just sex…’It’s a familiar claim. But it’s also an impossibility, as Darian Leader shows in this delightfully thought-provoking study.Our bodies aren’t just sticks that make fire when you rub

A delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader 'It was just sex.' It's a familiar claim. But is it really possible? The old idea th

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Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian an