What Can We Know About Sex?
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What Can We Know About Sex?

A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

  1. 140 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What Can We Know About Sex?

A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

About this book

Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud's discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan's work allows us to make new links between the sexual laws of discourse, gender and what Freud called the 'biological rock' in human life, allowing a new perspective not only on the history of the sexual couple but on contemporary developments of sexuality in the 21st century. Gisèle Chaboudez's insights demonstrate that the old phallic logic that has been so dominant is now in the process of being dismantled, opening up the question of how people can relate sexually and what forms of jouissance are at stake for contemporary subjectivity.

What Can We Know About Sex? will be a key text for analysts, academics and students of feminism, gender and sexuality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Translator’s note
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The universe of sexual laws
  11. 2 The experience of the sexual relation
  12. 3 Deconstruction of the sexual law
  13. 4 The veiling of non-conjunction
  14. 5 Organisation of the symbolic order
  15. 6 How the sexuated logics may be knotted together
  16. 7 Redistribution of jouissances
  17. Conclusion
  18. Index