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SCIENTIA SEXUALIS: A FOUCAULTIAN ANALYSIS (Atena Editora)
SCIENTIA SEXUALIS: A FOUCAULTIAN ANALYSIS (Atena Editora), 2022
The present work aims to outline some considerations about the third part of the work History of Sexuality I: The Will to Know, entitled Scientia Sexualis. In this chapter, Foucault (1926-1984) performs an analysis by what he names as Scientia Sexualis, or the science of sex, and which would be explained as a science that aims to clarify this aspect of human life. The methodology taken as a starting point of this research was the listing of works by Michel Foucault, especially, the History of Sexuality I: The Will to Know and its commentators, seeking a greater insight into the topic. Therefore, based on the above, what had been stated by some who preached that until the 19th century, sex was hidden, repressed and withheld is not sustainable. Foucault addresses this issue by presenting another way of thinking about sex, a way that emphasizes its invention or construction. What Foucault does, above all, is to oppose the normalizing assertion that sex has a true or essential nature, the French philosopher clearly describes that there was formation of the idea of knowing everything about sex, search for all its aspects, all its particularities. During this period, an apparatus appeared which, by propagating discourses about sex, aimed to determine veracity about it.
in J.L.Pio Abreu (1980). O Tempo Aprisionado. Ensaios não Espiritualistas sobre o Espírito Humano. pp. 139-149. Coimbra: Quarteto. ISBN 972-8535-43-0
The following text is an attempt to look at sexuality from a phenomenological perspective, and has been particularly influenced by the ideas of Husserl, Jaspers, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. From this perspective, we will try to see how desire, when thwarted, changes into love. Both desire and love are extreme terms, and are impossible to achieve, because desire reduces the other to object, while love reduces the self to the object of the other. Because of this, the human compromise is a balance between desire and love.
Where Does Sexuality Come From? Sex and Institution: a Knot
European Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2021
This essay analyzes the origin of sexuality and its relationship with the institution. The issue is addressed from the perspective of psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan), anthropology (Claude Lévi-Strauss) and philosophy (Foucault, Butler, Zupančič, Žižek). From the analysis of sexual difference as “real/impossible” a perspective comes to light: sex it is not a symbolic construct and not even an extra-symbolic reference, but what marks the irreducible (contradiction) limit of the symbolic order.
Educação, Gênero e Sexualidade: perspectiva crítica e decolonial no espaço escolar e não-escolar, 2021
In the view of the author, the main problem of semiotics is the understanding and advancing of understanding. To contribute to the solution of this problem, a distinction is suggested between two types of understanding: enlogy and empathy. The subject of enlogy reduces what he understands to himself as a code: he hears only what he is himself. The subject of empathy reduces what she understands to herself as a text: she sees only what she is striving to become. Enlogy is possible due to the identity of the communicants as a present unified code. Empathy is possible due to the identity of the communicants as a future common text. Mastering the code is a by-product of empathy; the texts rests on the enlogy that already is possible. Enlogy and empathy do not pereceive each other as understanding. Therefore their mutual understanding remains the hardest problem of understanding. To fulfil its task, semiotics has to address this problem.
Gênero, Sexualidade e O Sexual: O Sujeito Entre Butler, Foucault e Laplanche
Psicologia em Estudo, 2018
Neste trabalho, articulamos um debate crítico entre Butler, Foucault e Laplanche para pensar a constituição do sujeito a partir das categorias centrais utilizadas por esses pensadores: o gênero, a sexualidade e o sexual. Primeiro, desenvolvemos a ideia de jogos libidinais de poder: os jogos de poder foucaultianos não se sustentam sem um suporte libidinal subjetivo. Em seguida, após introduzir as leiturasde Butler e Laplanche, tentamos abrir caminho para uma releitura laplancheana sobre um mal-estar na teoria butleriana da performatividade de gênero. Para isso, aproximamos a performatividade, como repetição citacional de uma norma sem fundamento ontológico, aos conceitos laplancheanos de código tradutivos e mensagens enigmáticas. Como pano de fundo do debate, concebemos que a verdade recalcada dos arranjos normativos de gênero é o sexual, que desafia as tentativas de cristalizar, de forma clara e distinta, o binário tradicional homem-mulher. Do ponto de vista da constituição do sujei...
Love in the time of Darwinism: Paolo Mantegazza and the emergence of sexuality
is paper explores the emergence of the notion of sexuality in late-nineteenth-century medicine by analysing various writings of Paolo Mantegazza such as Fisiologia dell'amore (1873), Elementi di igiene (1875), and Gli amori degli uomini (1885). With this aim in mind, this study discusses rst Mantegazza's broader project on the physiology of emotions in order to explain in the second part the role of his contribution to the idea of love as the foundation of sexual medicine. us, love is an a ection that loses its religious connotation in order to be studied like the other forces of nature according to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. Furthermore, Mantegazza's concept of love was not exclusively focused on the anatomical structure of internal and external genital organs, what we understood as sex, but it also included the psychological dimension of the individual, and thus it was understood as a matter of choice and taste, i.e. as sexuality. In this way, Mantegazza's scienti c research reveals the shi from the old category of love to the emergent concept of sexuality, which transformed the sexual behaviour into an object under the administration and management of medical discourse. Finally, this article shows how love in the time of Darwinism opened the way to the modern category of sexuality as a singular experience considered to be the most important expression of our personality in contemporary society.
Nuevas subjetividades/sexualidades literarias edited by María Teresa Vera Rojas, Egales Editorial
Gender, Sexuality & Feminism, 2015
Book Review Nuevas subjetividades/sexualidades literarias edited by María Teresa Vera Rojas, Barcelona-Madrid, Egales Editorial, 2012, 212pp, €20 (paperback), ISBN 978-84-15574-72-9 An academic conference which took place in the University of Barcelona in November 2010, gave rise to this same-titled collection of essays, which have as a main objective the examination of a subject's identity construction outside of the normative paradigm. This type of subject/body is represented in its resistance from various fronts, from literary and theoretical works to cultural devices such as photographs, television series, and even music videos.
A sexualidade nas ciências sociais: leitura crítica das convenções
Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. While conventionally read as an intellectual legacy of Modernity, Latin American social thinking and research has in fact brought singular forms of engagement with, and new ways of looking at, political processes. Contributors to this reader have produced fresh and situated understandings of the relations between gender, sexuality, culture and society across the region. Topics in this volume include sexual politics and rights, sexual identities and communities, eroticism, pornography and sexual consumerism, sexual health and well-being, intersectional approaches to sexual cultures and behavior, sexual knowledge, and sexuality research methodologies in Latin America.