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What Is Sex?
Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology.Consider sublimation--conventionally understood as...
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Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology.
Author: Alenka Zupancic
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 09/08/2017
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780262534130
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2018
About the Author
Alenka Zupančič, a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher, teaches at the European Graduate School and is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the Arts. She is the author of The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two and The Odd One In: On Comedy, both in the Short Circuits series, published by the MIT Press.
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 Zupančič 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."
Zupančič 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.
Author: Alenka Zupancic
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 09/08/2017
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780262534130
Audience: Young Adult
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2018
About the Author
Alenka Zupančič, a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher, teaches at the European Graduate School and is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the Arts. She is the author of The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two and The Odd One In: On Comedy, both in the Short Circuits series, published by the MIT Press.
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