What IS Sex?
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- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2017
Summary
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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534130 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262534134 |
| Author: | Alenka Zupancic |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Short Circuits |
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About The Author
Alenka Zupancic
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.
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