What IS Sex? by Alenka Zupancic - ISBN: 9780262534130
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Sexuality: a philosophical short circuit between being and knowing, uncovered.

What IS Sex?

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    168 pages

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    8 September 2017

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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
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
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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