[D66] [JD: 20] What IS Sex?

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What IS Sex?

 From Short Circuits <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/short-circuits>


  What IS Sex?

By Alenka Zupančič <https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/alenka-zupancic>


        Paperback

$22.95 T ISBN: 9780262534130 168 pp. | 6 in x 9 in 6 b&w illus. 
September 2017


Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and 
epistemology.


      Endorsement

Zupančič's latest work takes your breath away. It is a pathbreaking 
discovery of the philosophical wager at the heart of the psychoanalytic 
project. Zupančič forces us to confront for the first time the 
ontological significance of sex.

Todd McGowan

Professor of English, University of Vermont; author of Capitalism and Desire

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 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 Zupančič 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.”

Zupančič 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.

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