A Note on Texts -- Preface -- Starting from the sexual -- Freud's coherence -- The sexual invariant and the return of Puritanism -- Eros, front Vienna to London -- The retreat of the sexual and its extreme forms -- Maternal sexuality -- And woman? -- Jouissance according to Lacan and others -- Towards a Metabiology -- On the limit-concept: `a drawer is a push-button in German' 24 -- The thing and the chain -- Returning to origins: translation and drives -- Trieb -- Eros: drives of life or love -- Eros and Psyche -- Representation and the erotic -- Theoretical strategies: dogmatic and genetic perspectives -- Traumas: yesterday and today -- Sexuality in contemporary analysis -- The sexualisation of non-libidinal conflicts -- Bisexuality and homosexualit(ies) -- A note on paedophilia -- Another translation -- Biosexuality -- The language of sex -- Cultural variations -- The double alterity -- Pause -- The chains of Eros -- Outline