Sexual Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism (Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415836867 ISBN 13: 9780415836869

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Throughout the twentieth century, psychoanalysis and feminism were the practico-intellectual fields most systematic and subversive in demonstrating that humanity is sexually fissured. More recently, further advances in the philosophy of difference and renewed emphases on embodiment, materiality and life offer possibilities for attending to dimensions of gender and sexuality that were previously underdeveloped. This collection examines these possibilities insofar as they can either deepen or displace the traditional centrality of psychoanalysis in matters sexual.

The authors come from a wide range of backgrounds and defend their approaches to the problem of sexual difference in a variety of idioms, drawing on key thinkers such as Lacan, Irigaray, Deleuze, Foucault and Badiou. It is rare to come across these thinkers together; but sex is too crucial a site for critical thought not to mobilize every conceptual power available.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

About this title

About the Author:

Arun Saldanha is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the author of Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race (2007) and co-editor of Deleuze and Race (2013) and Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets (2013).

Hoon Song is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is the author of Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America (2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415836867
• ISBN 13: 9780415836869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182
• Editor: Saldanha Arun, Song Hoon