What IS Sex? (Short Circuits)

Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious. Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.. The Lacanian perspective would make the answer to the simple-seeming question, "What is sex?" rather more complex. The satisfaction from talking contains

Alenka Zupani, 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 The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two and The Odd One In: On Comedy, both in the Short Circuits ser

(Todd McGowan, Professor of English, University of Vermont; author of Capitalism and Desire)Zupani performs here a remarkable feat: with the consummate clarity and precision for which she has become known, she restores to sex its florid obscurity and its enigmatic logic and gives to sexuality the ontological dignity it is due. Zupani forces us to confront for the first time the ontological significance of sex. Zupani's latest work takes your breath away. This book is bound to be heralded as an event. What<