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The Body as the Lustful Demon of the Midlife Itch.
How can we interpret passion when it seizes the body at a specific moment in time and the body when it is seized by passion ? This article examines the notion of passion as a key form of somatisation, thus endowing such expressions of ‘somatisation’ within the framework of their full drive-passion dimension. The individual who is ‘carried away’ by passion is, we argue, in the throes of untamed somatisation, while the soma, when it rears its head with whatever degree of intensity, signals the fact that the subject suffers as a result of the other, knowingly or not. This dichotomy is illustrated by our analysis here of the ‘midlife crisis’, in which a man falls head over heels in love with a young woman whose bloom is the guarantee of his own mirrored resurrection. This choice of love object is accompanied by a reworking of the drives at a critical moment in which the body occupies centre stage, as if to conjure up the illusion of ‘desire re-incarnated.’