TY - JOUR A1 - Dimen, Muriel T1 - Penetrating psychoanalytic theory. Reply to commentary JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 349-361. Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dimen, Muriel T1 - Playing with the Reality of Analytic Love: Commentary on Paper by Jody Messler Davies >Falling in Love with Love< JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 415-440. N2 - Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic literature suggest that the classical focus on psychosexuaiity has been lost. This charge is both wrong and right. After briefly surveying the evolution of psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality and reviewing the concept of libido, this essay retrieves the word Lust from the footnotes to which Freud consigned it and remodels it into a new idea. The proposition is put forth that a postclassical theory of sex compatible with contemporary clinical and theoretical practice can emerge once sexuality is rethought in the ambiguous, potential space between Lust and libido. Y1 - 1999 ER -