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Zupancic's latest work takes your breath away. It is a pathbreaking discovery of the philosophical wager at the heart of the psychoanalytic project. Zupancic forces us to confront for the first time the ontological significance of sex.―Todd McGowan, Professor of English, University of Vermont; author of Capitalism and DesireZupancic 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. This book is bound to be heralded as an event.―Joan Copjec, Professor, Brown University; author of Read My Desire and Imagine There's No WomanFreud argued that there was something fundamentally unsatisfying at the very core of sexuality. What Is Sex? is surely one of the most satisfying accounts we've ever had of this 'something.'―Eric L. Santner, The Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, The University of Chicago
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About the Author
Alenka Zupancic, 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 series, published by the MIT Press.
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Series: Short Circuits
Paperback: 162 pages
Publisher: MIT Press (September 8, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780262534130
ISBN-13: 978-0262534130
ASIN: 0262534134
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6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
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Psychoanalysis has always understood its principal theoretical terrain to be that of sex. In recent decades sex is a land that has receded from view below the tidal shift to gender theory; feminists and gender theorists heralded gender as socially and linguistically constructed and demoted sex as a category to the side of so-called biological fact or essentialism, leading to today's well-known dictum that sex is biological, gender is cultural. In short, gender theory participated in and eventually became the epicenter of a wider revanchism of Manichaen thinking in the theoretical humanities, one that sets the principle of construction against the principle of essence, of culture versus biology.One can now ask, as Zupancic does here, whether psychoanalysis-- and Freud and Lacan specifically-- set sex on the side of biology, as gender theorists claim, or whether they asked how sex and sexual pleasure disrupt both the acculturation and the biology of the organism. Why, Freud asks, do pleasure and enjoyment seemingly guide us to such errant destinations? Indeed, when one looks closely, there appears hardly anything "natural" about sex! The very problem of sexed reproduction-- and it IS a problem standing in need of explanation, since other forms of reproduction are ready-to-hand in this world-- is a problem of extreme evolutionary inefficiency and complexity (a species would have much better chances of survival if it didn't force its members to meet and perform a set of acts together in a given timeframe). Freud named this organic inefficiency, complexity, and inertia that is inherent to sex and pleasure: death drive, a ceaseless pressure to "return to the inorganic."Zupancic's book usefully unfolds a number of themes and debates around the fate of this "frontier-concept" of Freud's, and one could profitably read "What IS Sex?" alongside and against efforts by other contemporary theorists such as Catherine Malabou and Paolo Virno who seek not to oppose history and nature (as Barthes once had) but to interdigitate the two in an extremely precise (i.e., negative, apophatic) way: to endow the body with a mythological organ. Witness, for example, Zupancic's provocative defense of the phallus as a Lacanian concept, when otherwise both feminists and queer theorists have beaten a retreat from such allegedly biologizing language.This is, in short, a must-read book. But for whom? The title suggests a far wider audience than probably exists. The Short Circuits series in general suffers from inadequate editing, with issues that range from numbering errors and pronoun confusion to more mind-boggling printing mistakes in particular Lacanian formulae; "What IS Sex?" bears some of that, but the real impediment is the sense I had while reading of being thrown into a semi-private language. Zupancic gives very little, almost nothing, in the way of introductory set-up or framing to the issues of her address, largely leaving readers to puzzle out why she has chosen the particular paths and questions she has. Readers already keyed into this dialogue and vernacular will find much that is richly synthesized and developed in these brief pages, including a much needed revisitation and extension of the encounter between Deleuze and Lacan (via Badiou) that seems in comparison merely sketched in Zupancic's earlier (and excellent) "The Odd One In." This makes it a helpful shorthand and decisive contribution for those already up to speed, but others may find themselves at a loss as to how the work came together and what motivated its presentation. This is a very different reading experience from that of Zizek, where one sometimes gets the feeling of too much framing, and so it is both for better and worse that Zizek's companion volume, "Incontinence of the Void," provides a good bit of scaffolding and context to Zupancic's work (this back-and-forth is a stylistic accomplishment in its own right, but this review is for this book). I recommend working through both to get a fuller sense of the compass and radicality of psychoanalysis and its theory of sex and nonrelation, especially as it is understood by those in the orbit of the "Slovenian School."
Better than Butler! Zupancic recontextualizes the argument around sex and gender in a Hegelian/Lacanian perspective via a traidick structure (master signifier of gender/symbolic gender/gender in the real). The hard thrust of her arguments starts where Buttlers end, butt through it’s intercourse, recontextualizes the issues at play in a manner that has aroused new territory in this field, yielding brilliant new insight into a hot and hard topic. Zupacic cums to the conclusion ultimately that sex is the outgrowth of the ever present lack out of the signifying/symbolic elements that are preasant in our ontology. A proverbial hole that needs to perpetually be filled.She also has a wonderful section on the Freudian slip!
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