What is sex?

by Zupančič, Alenka

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Title Statements

Full title :What is sex? / Alenka Zupančič.

Summary

Consider sublimation - conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from talking is itself sexual. The satisfaction from talking contains a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the other way around) - even a key to sexuality itself and its inherent contradictions. Zupani argues that sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology. Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious. The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 154 Seiten : : Illustrationen

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262534130, 0262534134
oclc:on1011387411
LC Classification:HQ16
Dewey Decimal:306.7

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Philosophie Psychanalyse -- Philosophie Psychoanalyse Psychoanalysis -- Philosophy Sex -- Philosophy Sex (Psychology) Sexualité -- Philosophie Sexualité (psychologie) Sexualverhalten