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Author’s talk: Alenka Zupančič - What is Sex?

Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts

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The Relationship Between Positive Satisfaction and Negativity

sexuality or the concept of sexuality is precisely this link between this kind of positive satisfaction and the discursive signifying minus that gives its form to the unconscious. The sexuality is structurally implied in the unconscious because the gap constituted by the later constitutes the backbone, so to say, of the drive of enjoyment. It's not, they are not simply from two separate words. And I think this is why it's really important to grasp or to see that this radical heterogeneity which is clearly there,. increments of ability between the signifying order and enjoyment is not due to their heterogeneous origin but it's due on the contrary to the fact that they originate at the same place.

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