Sexual Opacity & the Non-Relation — WAP Congress 2025 Explained
This video presents a distilled, visual interpretation of the opening argument delivered by Christiane Alberti, Presidente of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP), inaugurating the XVth Congress (Paris, 2026) on the theme:
“There is no sexual relation.”
Alberti’s text revisits Freud’s scandalous discovery—infantile sexuality, the autonomy of the drive, and the primacy of voluptuousness—and places it against the backdrop of today’s hyper-visible and digitized sexuality.
Despite unprecedented access, expression, and variety, contemporary sexuality displays what Alberti calls a paradox:
more practices, fewer encounters; more partners, less desire.
Through Lacan’s concepts of desexualization, the object, and the role of the Other, the WAP argument reframes this paradox as a structural transformation:
a movement in which sexuality becomes aligned with consumption, contract, equality-as-identity, and digital hyper-visibility—while the symptomatic truth of sex becomes increasingly disavowed.
The video visually interprets key ideas from the text:
The disappearance of clandestine intimacy and the rise of public sexuality
The “fall zone” where reality overtakes the drive
The illusion of a sexuation without asymmetry
The culture of consent-as-contract and its limits
The persistence of sexual opacity — the visible face of “there is no”
Lacan’s insistence: there is no sexual relation that can be written, yet relations to sex remain through the symptom
This is a conceptual guide for viewers who want to grasp the stakes of the 2025 WAP text and Lacan’s aphorism in contemporary life:
In a world where sexuality is everywhere, the Real of sex remains opaque.
Source text:
World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) – “There Is No Sexual Relation.” Argument for the XVth Congress, 2025.
https://www.association-mondiale-psyc...
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