Sex and Nothing : Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0367103680
ISBN-13
9780367103682
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 14th, 2019
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
600 grams
Product Classification:
Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
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Sex and Nothing embarks upon a dialogue between colleagues and friends interested in bridging psychoanalysis and philosophy, linking sex and thought, where what emerges is a greater awareness of the irreducucibility of sex to the discourse of knowledge and meaning: in other words, sex and nothing.
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 as an erotology nor a science of sex (scientia sexualis). In this matter, sex escapes the symbolic restraints of language; however, it is through its failure that it manifests itself through the symbolic, e.g. symptoms or dream life. So, what is sex? Sex and Nothing embarks upon a dialogue between colleagues and friends interested in bridging psychoanalysis and philosophy, linking sex and thought, where what emerges is a greater awareness of the irreducucibility of sex to the discourse of knowledge and meaning: in other words, sex and nothing.
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