Why sexuality is at the point of a short circuit between ontology and epistemology. aInstitute of Philosophy, Scientific Research.

She is also professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and at the Graduate School ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana). Read 'What IS Sex' by Alenka Zupancic available from Rakuten Kobo. Sex, ontology, subjectivity: In conversation with Alenka Zupani. She works as research advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences. The satisfaction from talking contains a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the other way around)-even a key to sexuality itself and its inherent. About the authorĪlenka Zupančič is a Slovene philosopher and social theorist.

The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity. Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious.

Alenka Zupani, What Is Sex Vivian Maier, EXIT. In What is Sex?, Alenka Zupančič approaches the question of sexuality from a Lacanian perspective, considering it a properly philosophical problem for psychoanalysis.ĭrawing on Freud and Lacan, Zupančič argues that sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology. RT lacancircle: The messiness of our sexuality is not a consequence or result of there being no sexual relation.

What IS Sex? by Alenka Zupančič