Sex and Nothing - Couverture souple

Cerda-Rueda, Alejandro

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782203389 ISBN 13 : 9781782203384

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alejandro Cerda-Rueda is a practising psychoanalyst in Mexico City. He is Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, and senior editor for Paradiso Editores.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782203389
• ISBN 13: 9781782203384
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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