{"product_id":"what-is-sex-9780262534130","title":"What Is Sex?","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy sexuality is at the point of a \"short circuit\" between ontology and epistemology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsider sublimation--conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from talking is itself sexual. The satisfaction from talking contains a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the other 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?\" rather 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 kind of clinician practitioners called by Lacan \"orthopedists of the unconscious.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZupančič 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 concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlenka Zupančič, a Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher, teaches at the European Graduate School and is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the Arts. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Odd One In: On Comedy, \u003c\/i\u003e both in the Short Circuits series, published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844202795282,"sku":"9780262534130","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2050e63b-c971-4e98-b820-98dd7e7226cb.jpg?v=1737313909","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-is-sex-9780262534130","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}