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"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"
List of contents
I. 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
About the author
Renata Salecl is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism After the Fall of Socialism and (Per)versions of Love and Hate.
Summary
Describes 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.
