Disorganisation & Sex
Disorganisation & Sex
Disorganisation & Sex
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Description
Description
Never does the patient seem more ill than when they try to order associations into a logical tale. Classical analysis sees this in terms of a repudiation of sexuality: an attempt to avoid speaking from a place of desire. But why should psychoanalysis reduce everything to sex? If sex only ever achieves partial satisfactions, fragments of pleasure, its pursuit creates our subjectivity and our world. Disorganisation & Sex argues that the sexuality of psychoanalysis is not a reductive biologism, but an archaic remainder that cannot be colonised, endlessly disorienting meaning in our everyday lives. It is our proximity to this terrain that undoes our most tedious habits, and opens onto something revelatory.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Who knew the hole was what Freud had in mind when he invented psychoanalysis and wouldn't stop saying 'sex'. Take a tumble into Wonderland with Dr Webster and decide for yourself what counts as real." -- Courtney Love
"This book is a dare. By giving desire back to sex, Webster offers us a blueprint for talking about sex at a time when we've forgotten how to do so." -- Ricky Varghese, psychoanalyst and queer theorist
"Putting her finger on the difficulty of sexuality, one of our savviest psychoanalytic commentators limns its impossibilities - but also its potential for inventing something new." -- Tim Dean, author of Hatred of Sex
"Being dragged into the orbit of Webster's mind is like entering the Magic Mountain: you go in as a visitor, and stay as a patient." -- British novelist Tom McCarthy
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Divided Publishing
Pub date:
2022-10-01
Length:
240 pages
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