Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: Philosophical Criticisms

Table of Contents

5 Table of Contents Acknowledgements and Abbreviations 7 Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy – An Introduction Jens de Vleminck 9 Section I – Sexuality and Metaphysics 19 What is Frightening about Sexual Pleasure? – Introducing Lacan’s Jouissance into Freudian Psychoanalysis via Plato and Aristotle Paul moyaert 21 Sextimacy – Freud, Mortality, and a Reconsideration of the Role of Sexuality in Psychoanalysis adrian Johnston 35 Death, Libido, and Negative Ontology in the Theory of Drives Vladimir Safatle 61 Love of Truth, True Love, and the Truth about Love ruth ronen 83 Derrida and Lacan – An Impossible Friendship? charles Shepherdson 97 Section II – Sexuality in Practice 119 The Sexual Animal and the Primal Scene elissa marder 121 Between Disposition, Trauma, and History – How Oedipal was Dora? Philippe Van haute & tomas Geyskens 139 Figures_150810.indd 5 22/09/10 10:35 Section III – Sexuality and Politics 155 Foucault versus Freud – On Sexuality and the Unconscious eran dorfman 157 The Psyche and the Social – Judith Butler’s Politicizing of Psychoanalytical Theory Veronica Vasterling 171 Foucault, Lacan, and the Concept of Technique cecilia Sjöholm 183 Section IV – Sexuality and Aesthetics 197 Between Signifier and Jouissance – Lacan with Teresa ari hirvonen 199 Painting as Hysteria – Deleuze on Bacon tomas Geyskens 215 Epilogue – Sexuality and the Quarrel between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis 231 eran dorfman Notes on the Contributors 237 Figures_150810.indd 6 22/09/10 10:35 ...