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  title info:
    title: What is sex?
  name:
    name part: Zupančič, Alenka
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 154 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Alenka Zupančič.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Sex (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalysis
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Sex
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: HQ16 .Z87 2017
  classification: 306.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Short circuits
  identifier: 9780262534130
  identifier: 0262534134
  identifier: 2016059709
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170530
    record change date: 20180214132147.0
    record identifier: in00003894128