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Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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68 minutes
Released:
Nov 17, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more deplorable than we might wish. Davis and Dean explore the consequences of this conflicted dynamic across a range of fields and institutions, including queer studies, attachment theory, the #MeToo movement, and “traumatology,” demonstrating how hatred of sex has been optimized and exploited by neoliberalism. Advancing strong claims about sex, pleasure, power, intersectionality, therapy, and governance, Davis and Dean shed new light on enduring questions of equality at a historical moment when democracy appears ever more precarious.
Matthew Pieknik is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.
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Released:
Nov 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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