Is the rectum a grave? : and other essays /

The title essay in this collection is one of the foundations of queer theory. This is a retrospective, charting Bersani's contributions to debates connecting sexuality, psychoanalysis & aesthetics, & his reactions to a range of leading thinkers, among them Plato, Descartes, Foucault, Ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bersani, Leo
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Sex (Psychology) Psychoanalysis and art. Gender identity. Queer theory. Cruising (Sexual behavior) Psychoanalysis. Aesthetics. Homosexuality > Psychological aspects. Psychoanalysis Sexuality Homosexuality Gender Identity Psychoanalytic Theory Sexualité (Psychologie) Psychanalyse et art. Identité de genre. Théorie queer. Drague (Sexualité) Psychanalyse. Homosexualité. sex role. psychoanalysis. homosexuality. Aesthetics Gender identity Psychoanalysis and art Queer theory Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture) Sexualität. Geschlechtsidentität. Homosexualität. Homosexueller. Queer-Theorie. Psychoanalyse. Ästhetik. Essays.

Table of Contents:

The sexual subject
Is the rectum a grave?
Is there a gay art?
Gay betrayals
Sociability and cruising
Aggression, shame, and Almodóvar's art
Toward an aesthetic subject
Against monogamy
Sociality and sexuality
Can sex make us happy?
Fr-oucault and the end of sex
Psychoanalysis and the aesthetic subject
The will to know
Two interviews
A conversation with Leo Bersani / with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman
Beyond redemption: an interview with Leo Bersani / with Nicholas Royle.