Porn on the Couch - Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Screen Cultures/Memories

This book considers pornography as a bridge between screen cultures and screen memories. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Media and Cultural Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Mental Health. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Porn Studies.

List of contents

Foreword 1. Introduction: an orgasm by any other name 2. Form for the blind (porn and description without guarantee) 3. Paranoid pleasure: surveillance, online pornography, and scopophilia 4. A porn voyeur's discourse 5. Looking for Pei Lim's penis: melancholia, mimicry, pedagogy 6. Pornography, psychoanalysis and the sinthome: ignorance and ethics 7. 'Bodies that splutter': theorizing jouissance in bareback and chemsex porn 8. A psychoanalytic ethics of the pornographic aesthetic 9. The social/ political potential of illusions: enthusiasm and feminist porn 10. More than vanilla sex: reading gay post- pornography with affect theory and psychoanalysis

About the author

Ricky Varghese is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist based in Toronto and Senior Research Associate at the Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University) and Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Toronto, Canada.

Summary

This book considers pornography as a bridge between screen cultures and screen memories. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Media and Cultural Studies, Sociology, Psychology, and Mental Health. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Porn Studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ricky Varghese (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032434285
• ISBN: 978-1-032-43428-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Weight: 217 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis