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Porn on the Couch: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Screen Cultures/Memories book cover

1st Edition

Porn on the Couch Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Screen Cultures/Memories

Edited By Ricky Varghese Copyright 2023
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge
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This book considers pornography as a bridge between screen cultures and screen memories. The screen as a conceptual apparatus, in both pornographic production/ viewership and psychoanalysis, becomes important to unpack as such— what does the screen hold in with respect to desire and pleasure? What does it keep out? Are sex and memory interconnected? And if so, what is the status of memory as it... Read more

Foreword

Feona Attwood, Clarissa Smith and John Mercer

1. Introduction: an orgasm by any other name

Ricky Varghese

2. Form for the blind (porn and description without guarantee)

Eugenie Brinkema

3. Paranoid pleasure: surveillance, online pornography, and scopophilia

Chris Vanderwees

4. A porn voyeur’s discourse

Fan Wu

5. Looking for Pei Lim’s penis: melancholia, mimicry, pedagogy

David K. Seitz

6. Pornography, psychoanalysis and the sinthome: ignorance and ethics

Katie Goss

7. ‘Bodies that splutter’: theorizing jouissance in bareback and chemsex porn

Gareth Longstaff

8. A psychoanalytic ethics of the pornographic aesthetic

Alison Horbury

9. The social/ political potential of illusions: enthusiasm and feminist porn

Maggie Ann Labinski

10. More than vanilla sex: reading gay post- pornography with affect theory and psychoanalysis

Peter Rehberg

Biography

Ricky Varghese is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist based in Toronto and Senior Research Associate at the Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University) and Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Toronto, Canada.

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