1st Edition
Sex and Nothing Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy
By Alejandro Cerda-Rueda
Copyright 2016
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction , From Ljubljana . . . , Sexuality within the limits of reason alone , Officers, maids, and chimneysweepers , Events through Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real , The unsoundable decision of being , Psychoanalysis and antiphilosophy: the case of Jacques Lacan , ... To Elsewhere , The sexual compact , Mathematics in the bedroom: sex, the signifier, and the smallest whole number , Ich-psychologie und Massenanalyse: a Žižekian reading of Lacan’s impasse , The aesthetic process as reversal , Love, psychoanalysis, and leftist political ontology
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Alejandro Cerda-Rueda
