|
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Postmodernism > Structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism
|
Buy Now
What IS Sex? (Paperback)
Loot Price: R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
You Save: R62
(10%)
|
|
|
What IS Sex? (Paperback)
Series: Short Circuits
 (sign in to rate)
List price R625
Loot Price R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
You Save R62 (10%)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology
and epistemology. 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." Zupancic 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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
