Sexuality and Psychoanalysis
Philosophical Criticisms
Edited by Jens De Vleminck and Eran Dorfman
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).
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
Format: Edited volume - ebook
240 pages
ISBN: 9789461660381
Publication: March 20, 2013
Series: Figures of the Unconscious 10
Languages: English
Jens De Vleminck is a philosopher, sexologist, and psychoanalyst (Belgian School for Psychoanalysis). He is Junior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (KU Leuven).
Eran Dorfman schrijft in zijn epiloog dat de psychoanalyse en de filosofie elkaar kunnen bevruchten. En inderdaad in dit boek hebben meer dan tien filosofen en psychoanalytici, kenners van Lacan en Freud, uit verschillende werelddelen in twaalf boeiende en uitdagende essays bewezen dat het thema van de seksualiteit zeer geschikt is om deze wederzijdse bestuiving vrucht te doen dragen. De filosofen dagen de analytici uit om de psychoanalyse kritisch te bekijken en omgekeerd wordt aan de filosoof gevraagd om de psychoanalyse serieus te nemen.
LILI PHILIPPE, Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse - Zeventiende jaargang - 2011 - Nummer 4