Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy

by Alejandro Cerda-Rueda

From its etymological roots, sex is related to a scission, Latin for sectus, secare, meaning "to divide or cut." Therefore, regardless of the various studies applied to defining sex as inscribed by discursive acts, i.e. merely a 'performatively enacted signification, ' there is something more to sex than just a social construction or an aprioristic substance. Sex is irreducible to meaning or knowledge. This is why psychoanalysis cannot be formulated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367103680
• ISBN13: 9780367103682
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages