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Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma

Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma

Murphy, Kevin

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General PsychologyMental HealthSexuality

ISBN10: 1032103582
ISBN13: 9781032103587
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 5 2022
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Asexuality and Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Towards a Theory of an Enigma proposes that asexuality is a libidinally founded desire for no sexual desire, a concept not included in psychoanalytic theory up to now.

Asexuality is defined as the experience of having no sexual attraction for another person; as an emerging self-defined sexual orientation, it has received practically no attention from psychoanalytic research. This book is the first sustained piece of exploratory and theoretical research from a Freudian-Lacanian perspective. Using Freudian concepts to understand the intricacies of human sexual desire, this volume will also employ Lacanian conceptual tools to understand how asexuality might sustain itself despite the absence of Other-directed sexual desire. This book argues that asexuality holds a mirror to contemporary sexualized society which assumes sexual attraction and eroticism as the benchmarks for experiencing sexual desire. It also argues that asexuality may be a previously unrecognized form of human sexuality which can contribute new understandings to the range and breadth of what it means to be a sexual being.

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