What Is Sex?

by Alenka Zupančič

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534134
• ISBN13: 9780262534130
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher