Is the rectum a grave? : and other essays / Leo Bersani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bersani, Leo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex (Psychology).

Psychoanalysis and art.

Gender identity.

Queer theory.

Cruising (Sexual behavior).

Psychoanalysis.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory-his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, "Is the Rectum a Grave?"-this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key

Contents:

The sexual subject

Is the rectum a grave?

Is there a gay art?

Gay betrayals

Sociability and cruising

Aggression, shame, and Almodovar's art

Toward an aesthetic subject

Against monogamy

Sociality and sexuality

Can sex make us happy?

Fr-oucault and the end of sex

Psychoanalysis and the aesthetic subject

The will to know

Two interviews

A conversation with Leo Bersani / with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman

Beyond redemption: an interview with Leo Bersani / with Nicholas Royle.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612445514

9780226043449

0226043444

9781282445512

1282445510

OCLC:

593222221