In psychoanalytic theory, aphanisis (; from the Greek ἀφάνισις aphanisis, "disappearance") is the disappearance of sexual desire. The etymology of the term refers to it as the absence of brilliance in the astronomical sense such as the fading or the disappearance of a star. Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan used the term in reference to the fading or disappearance of the subject.
In psychoanalytic theory, aphanisis (; from the Greek ἀφάνισις aphanisis, "disappearance") is the disappearance of sexual desire. The etymology of the term refers to it as the absence of brilliance in the astronomical sense such as the fading or the disappearance of a star. Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan used the term in reference to the fading or disappearance of the subject.
==Jones== According to the theories of Ernest Jones, who coined the term in 1927, aphanisis is the foundation of all neuroses. Jones suggested that fear of aphanisis was in both sexes more fundamental than castration anxiety, an argument he used against Sigmund Freud in their debate over female sexuality. Jones considered that the Oedipus complex confronted each sex with the threat of aphanisis, and the choice of giving up "either their sex or their incest".
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