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What IS Sex?

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

What IS Sex?

By Filozofski Institut ZRC SAZU) Zupancic Alenka (Senior Research Fellow

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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...Show more

Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Sex and sexuality, social aspects
Lacanian psychoanalysis

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9780262534130

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MIT Press Ltd

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2017

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What IS Sex?

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