Yielding is not consenting.' This may seem obvious. However, it is necessary to delineate the boundary between 'yielding' and 'consenting', as there can sometimes be a dangerous proximity between the two. Consent, in fact, always carries a risk: I can never know in advance where it will lead me. Could it be that consent paves the way for coercion? The experience of passion, the anguish in the relationship with the other, and obedience to the superego...