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<p class="book__series"> From <a
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Short Circuits </a></p>
<h1 class="book__title"> What IS Sex? </h1>
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<p>By <a
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Zupančič</a></p>
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<div class="book__blurb"> Why sexuality is at the point of a
“short circuit” between ontology and epistemology.
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<p class="mq">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.</p>
<p class="mqr">Todd McGowan</p>
<p class="mqa">Professor of English, University of Vermont;
author of Capitalism and Desire</p>
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<p> <b>Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit”
between ontology and epistemology.</b> </p>
<p>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.” </p>
<p>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.</p>
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