SEXUALITY & PSYCHOANALYSIS

01. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-5867-844-7
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Figures of the Unconscious

The relationship between sexuality and psychoanalysis can be described in terms of an old and stormy love affair. The same can be said about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. It is precisely this fascinating ‘love triangle' that the present volume of essays aims to explore. A diverse group of philosophers and psychoanalysts reflected on the concept of sexuality in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis. The result is a stimulating collection of essays where the role of sexuality in psychoanalysis is scrutinized from a philosophical point of view.

This volume does more than merely offer an alternative psychoanalytic account of sexuality. It also develops a wide range of philosophical reflections on sexuality as conceptualized by Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and in this way initiates a dialogue between the two concurrent disciplines.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Vleminck, Jens

Dorfman, Eran

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements and Abbreviations 7

Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy - An Introduction
Jens De Vleminck

Section I - Sexuality and Metaphysics

What is Frightening about Sexual Pleasure? - Introducing Lacan's Jouissance into Freudian Psychoanalysis via Plato and Aristotle
Paul Moyaert

Sextimacy - Freud, Mortality, and a Reconsideration of the Role of Sexuality in Psychoanalysis
Adrian Johnston

Death, Libido, and Negative Ontology in the Theory of Drives
Vladimir Safatle

Love of Truth, True Love, and the Truth about Love
Ruth Ronen

Derrida and Lacan - An Impossible Friendship?
Charles Shepherdson

Section II - Sexuality in Practice 119

The Sexual Animal and the Primal Scene
Elissa Marder

Between Disposition, Trauma, and History - How Oedipal was Dora?
Philippe Van Haute & Tomas Geyskens

Section III - Sexuality and Politics 155

Foucault versus Freud - On Sexuality and the Unconscious
Eran Dorfman

The Psyche and the Social - Judith Butler's Politicizing of Psychoanalytical Theory
Veronica Vasterling

Foucault, Lacan, and the Concept of Technique
Cecilia Sjöholm

Section IV - Sexuality and Aesthetics

Between Signifier and Jouissance - Lacan with Teresa
Ari Hirvonen

Painting as Hysteria - Deleuze on Bacon
Tomas Geyskens

Epilogue - Sexuality and the Quarrel between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Eran Dorfman

Notes on the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

De Vleminck, Jens
Jens De Vleminck is a philosopher, sexologist, and psychoanalyst (Belgian School for Psychoanalysis). He is Junior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven).

Dorfman, Eran
Eran Dorfman is a philosopher specializing in Continental Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. He is currently an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Freie Universität (Berlin) and Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris).