Sexualité : fin de récit ?
According to Lacan, the truth of human sexuality lies in fiction. That’s why one had better read Sophocles’ Oedipus or Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe than a medical textbook, if one wants to understand something about it. That is also why dreams and fantasies are the psychic form of its manifestation. To...
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2024
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | According to Lacan, the truth of human sexuality lies in fiction. That’s why one had better read Sophocles’ Oedipus or Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe than a medical textbook, if one wants to understand something about it. That is also why dreams and fantasies are the psychic form of its manifestation. Today, however, we are witnessing an attempt to contest the fictional nature and power of sexuality, in the name of various materialisms, whether social or biological. It is this epistemological and cultural break between sexuality and fiction, involving a kind of depsychization of sexuality, that this piece sets out to identify and analyze. With the end of fictions of sexual life and the exhaustion of their narratives, it is perhaps the very end of sexuality as a concept and as a paradigm that is being announced. |
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