THE FUNCTIONAL PLEASURE, THE PLEASURE-UNP LEASURE PRINCIPLE AND SOME REMARKS ABOUT THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX AND SUBLIMATION

The author investigates the relationships between the concept of funct ional pleasure as defined by Fenichel and some other psychoanalytic co ncepts. It is argued that in the realization of formations of represse d genital-sexual drive wishes the erogenic pleasure which is intended changes into a functional pleasure in which successful defense can be subjectively experienced. At the beginning of a sexual interaction the re is an anxiety whether it is possible to keep the repressed wishes w ith their substitutes out of consciousness. The pleasure-unpleasure-pr inciple as defined by Freud is read as an unpleasure-functional pleasu re-principle which is only valid for the realization of substitutes of the repressed. Furthermore the reasons for a solution of the oedipus complex as put forward by Freud are rejected and sublimations are unde rstood as the result of different defense mechanisms which lead to sub stitutes of the repressed which are in accordance with society and the ego of an individual.