{"product_id":"sex-and-nothing-paperback-softback","title":"Sex and Nothing - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom its etymological roots, sex is related to a scission, Latin for sectus, secare, meaning \"to divide or cut.\" Therefore, regardless of the various studies applied to defining sex as inscribed by discursive acts, i.e. merely a 'performatively enacted signification,' there is something more to sex than just a social construction or an aprioristic substance. Sex is irreducible to meaning or knowledge. This is why psychoanalysis cannot be formulated as an erotology nor a science of sex (scientia sexualis). In this matter, sex escapes the symbolic restraints of language; however, it is through its failure that it manifests itself through the symbolic, e.g. symptoms or dream life. So, what is sex? Sex and Nothingembarks upon a dialogue between colleagues and friends interested in bridging psychoanalysis and philosophy, linking sex and thought, where what emerges is a greater awareness of the irreducucibility of sex to the discourse of knowledge and meaning: in other words, sex and nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44576945045742,"sku":"9781782203384","price":59.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781782203384.jpg?v=1704450218","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/sex-and-nothing-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}