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Freudian theory historicizes sexuality, makes it temporal in a new way. Is there a relation between the rethinking of time in Heidegger and the temporality of sexuality? Jean Laplanche asks a similar question, and attempts to answer it. The paper takes up Laplanche's question, and provides a different answer, by focusing on the work of contemporary analysts who have extended the theory of sexuality into the realm of the transitional, and on related conceptions from Derrida and Deleuze. A stricter integration of Freud and Heidegger on sexuality and time is proposed via a reading of Freud's obscure notion of primary, intermediate organizations of the drives.

Draws on Maurice Apprey's (1998) analysis of the intergenerational transmission of trauma in the African American community to examine the larger (but related) issue of the intergenerational transmission of racism; the notion of the "trauma of racism" is also explored. Specific reference is made to such transmission at the institutional level, ie, within the institution of psychoanalysis, which, though it has experienced theoretical & political changes as a result of the feminist & gay liberation movements, evinces a curious lack of influence by the civil rights movement; this is most evident in the continued lack of black analysts. Freudian explanations of racism are detailed, along with Apprey's interpretation & expansion of them. An attempt is made to further expand Freudian metapsychology in this analysis, & the potential for linking the metapsychological & the political is considered. Apprey's proposal for the establishment of community intervention based on psychoanalytic principles for the expression & resolution of race-based issues is supported, both as a means of addressing racism in society as a whole & within the psychoanalytic profession. K. Hyatt Stewart