What is sex?

by Zupančič, Alenka

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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. The Lacanian perspective would make the answer to the simple-seeming question, "What is sex?" rather more complex. In this volume in the 'Short Circuits' series, Alenka Zupancic approaches the question from just this perspective, considering sexuality a properly philosophical problem for psychoanalysis; and by psychoanalysis, she means that of Freud and Lacan, not that of the kind of clinician practitioners called by Lacan "orthopedists of the unconscious." 00Zupancic 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):The MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262341905, 0262341905
oclc:on1005191203
LC Classification:HQ16
Dewey Decimal:306.7

Series Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: It's Getting Strange in Here ... ; Did Somebody Say Sex?; Where Do Adults Come From?; Christianity and Polymorphous Perversity; Chapter 2: ... and Even Stranger out There; The Quandary of the Relation; The Anti-Sexus; "The Invisible 'Handjob' of the Market"; Chapter 3: Contradictions that Matter; Sex or Gender?; Sexual Division, a Problem in Ontology; Je te m'athème ... moi non plus; Chapter 4: Object-Disoriented Ontology; Realism in Psychoanalysis; Human, Animal; Death Drive I: Freud; Trauma outside Experience; Death Drive II: Lacan and Deleuze.

Subjects

PHILOSOPHY/General POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Psychanalyse -- Philosophie Psychoanalysis -- Philosophy Sex -- Philosophy Sex (Psychology) Sexualité -- Philosophie Sexualité (psychologie) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture