ANALYTICS OF SEX IN LACAN

NON-EXISTENCE OF SEXUAL RELATION AND EROTISM

Authors

  • Rafael Cossi Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59099/prpub.2023.34

Keywords:

Allouch; Lacanian psychoanalysis; Non-relation; Eroticism; Foucault

Abstract

This is the review of the book O Outrossexo: não existe relação heterossexual. Its author, Jean Allouch, considers that it is possible to deduce two analyzes of sex in Lacan, corresponding to two modalities of the non-existence of the sexual relation. Allouch questions the Lacanian project of writing non-relation – the second analytic – which makes use to resources of the knot theory, from which one could infer three incidences of non-existence: The Other does not exist, the Other jouissance does not exist, the sexual relation does not exist. In parallel to this proposal, the author presents three figures of non sexual relation taken from Foucault – the master with the boys, with the women and with the wife. The book invites critical reflection on an eventual contribution of the erotic inferred by gender studies to an eroticism characteristic of the non-sexual relation – and which would be an unprecedented way of approaching this Lacanian aphorism.

Author Biography

Rafael Cossi, Universidade de São Paulo

Possui graduação em Psicologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (2000), títulos de especialista (2003), mestre (2010) e doutor (2017) pelo Departamento de Psicologia Clínica - USP. Atualmente, é pós-doutorando (IPUSP), pesquisador do Laboratório de Teoria Social, Filosofia e Psicanálise (LATESFIP-USP), membro do ambulatório Generidades (AGE) e professor do Instituto Gerar de Psicanálise

References

Allouch, J. (2022). O Outrossexo: não há relação heterossexual. Zagodoni.

Zupančič, A. (2023). O que é sexo? Autêntica.

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Published

2023-11-17

How to Cite

Cossi, R. (2023). ANALYTICS OF SEX IN LACAN: NON-EXISTENCE OF SEXUAL RELATION AND EROTISM. PLURAL - Journal of Psychology UNESP Bauru, 2, e02300r. https://doi.org/10.59099/prpub.2023.34

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Vol. 2 (2023): PLURAL - Revista de Psicologia UNESP Bauru

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Reviews

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