
Author’s talk: Alenka Zupančič - What is Sex?
Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts
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Psychoanalytic Theory
The heterogeneous element pertaining to the signifying structure, yet irreducible to eat this surplus enjoyment emerges here. This is something that it's not there in the kind of classical or Buddhist account of the ever symbolic order signifiers. The unbound positivity only exists as circulating around this negativity that constitutes. Psychoanalytic theory is all about lack, castration, minus negativity, but it lacks precisely a concept of pure positivity and affirmation of excessiveness of surplus.
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