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Alenka Zupancic
What is Sex?
2017. 168 S. 6 ill. 228 mm
Verlag/Jahr: MIT PRESS 2017
ISBN: 0-262-53413-4 (0262534134)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-262-53413-0 (9780262534130)
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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. Zupani 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.
Alenka Zupani, 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, published by the MIT Press.