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Book SynopsisDescribes and analyses contemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference. This title includes essays that elaborate on different aspects of this deadlock of sexual difference.
Trade Review“Many of today’s leading Lacanians—practicing psychoanalysts as well as cultural theorists—here puzzle out the new riddles of sexuality. Does Lacan’s concept of ‘sexuation’ really answer to feminist and queer discourses on sex and gender, sexual identity, sexual orientation, performativity? These provocative essays will begin the debate.”—John Brenkman, author of
Straight Male Modern: A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis“Sex or gender? This false alternative, which has long befuddled the theorization of femininity and sexual difference, is exploded by this excellent collection. Relying on Lacan's eventful revision of Freud, the essays analyze various aspects and implications of the a-biological, a-constructivist process of "sexuation" by which the subject emerges, embodied and sexed, from its encounter with the Other. A bonfire of a book whose strong, often brilliant analyses generate a heat sufficient to warm a multitutude of feminist and political debates.”—Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Table of ContentsI. Sexual Difference
On Semblances in the Relation Between the Sexes / Jacques-Alain Miller
Psychoanalytical Anatomy / Genevieve Morel
The Curse on Sex / Colette Soler
II. Paternal Prohibition
Freud’s Moses and the Ethics of Nomotropic Desire / Eric L. Santner
Beating Fantasies and Sexuality / Darian Leader
The Collapse of the Function of the Father and Its Effect on Gender Roles / Paul Verhaeghe
III. Feminine Exception
Feminine Jealousies / Genevieve Morel
Noir Wagner / Elisabeth Bronfen
The Thing from Inner Space / Slavoj Zizek
IV. Love
What Is Love? / Alain Badiou
The Case of the Perforated Sheet / Alenka Zupancic
Love and Sexual Difference: Doubled Partners in Men and Women / Renata Salecl
