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What IS Sex? (Short Circuits)

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

Consider sublimation — conventionally understood as an alternative satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we will be able to get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point isn’t to provide an explanation for the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from talking is itself sexual. The satisfaction from talking incorporates a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the wrong 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?” somewhat 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 type of clinician practitioners known as 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 idea that of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.

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