Zupančič: What is Sex?

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  • Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
  • In todays lecture I want to talk about Alenka Zupančič’s book “What is Sex” and provide a basic introduction to its central argument.
    For more, visit: www.patreon.com/julianphilosophy
    Thanks for watching,
    Julian
    #zupancic #lacan #freud #marx #zizek #philosophy

КОМЕНТАРІ • 39

  • @julianphilosophy
    @julianphilosophy  17 днів тому

    My ebooks can be found here: www.patreon.com/julianphilosophy

  • @pangelsaya
    @pangelsaya 17 днів тому +12

    Zizek’s in and out joke gets me everytime. He’s such a damn gremlin.

  • @Zizeksagalma
    @Zizeksagalma 17 днів тому +9

    A deeply insightful book by Zupančič! It’s her best theoretical work imo. Id love to hear your complete analysis of it, as some of the later parts of it are quite dense with lacanian jargon and are a bit abstract (particularly when she brings Deleuze, Žižek, and Badiou together in her discussion of Being).

  • @adamarmstrong3991
    @adamarmstrong3991 15 днів тому +1

    Hi Julian. I'm listening from El Paso Texas. I love your videos. I just purchased the book. Sounds very interesting. Watched your short 10 minute video first and it made me want to watch this one and buy the book. Thank you.

  • @FreeFormFemi
    @FreeFormFemi 16 днів тому +1

    I have grown to enjoy your work more and more over the times

  • @maxwelllegere1483
    @maxwelllegere1483 17 днів тому +3

    YOOOOOO so excited for this one, there no topic i'd like to see you cover more than this one

  • @nguyenhs9800
    @nguyenhs9800 16 днів тому

    I picked this book 4 years ago but I never understood it. Tks you so much!

  • @thereisnootherside689
    @thereisnootherside689 17 днів тому +1

    Can you please provide transcripts? They would be very helpful.

  • @reviraemusic
    @reviraemusic 13 днів тому

    Brazil here. Could you talk about Lacan's graphs and formulas?

  • @wk801
    @wk801 17 днів тому +1

    Love the channel keep up the good work.

  • @Life_Of_Mine_
    @Life_Of_Mine_ 17 днів тому +2

    The best nietzsche scholar is Zupancic

  • @herbivoreheather
    @herbivoreheather 17 днів тому

    Amazing work

  • @MonkeyDIvan
    @MonkeyDIvan 16 днів тому +1

    *Alenka, not Alexis, Julian. You got the description wrong.

  • @derpfaddesweisen
    @derpfaddesweisen 17 днів тому +1

    Hey Julian,
    Can you make a lecture about the point of psychoanalysis? I really tried getting into it, but its usefulness escapes me. The concepts seem naive and historically, psychoanalysis needed decades to stop pathologizing homosexuality, now they fail the same way with transidentity, while every other branch of psychology adapts more quickly to new evidence (and the needs of the patient, while their wellbeing seems to be only of secondary importance). Psychoanalysis seems inherently reactionary when it comes to queer people and a method of bullying them back into the heteronormative matrix.
    Now, since my most beloved theorists like Zizek, Butler, Marcuse and Adorno use it extensively, there is probably more to it, but what psychoanalysis does that isn't already done with other methods of analysis is unclear to me. Can you give an explanation or an introduction into the emancipatory potential of it?
    Thank you for your work and i wish you a good day.

    • @luizacravopff
      @luizacravopff 11 днів тому

      There's a quote by Jacques Lacan that says "Any psychoanalyst who cannot reach the subjectivity of his time must renounce the practice of psychoanalysis.” (sorry about the translation, i couldnt find the official one in english, but i hope you can get the idea)... This quote makes me think that a conservative or reactionary psychoanalyst completely missed the point of what psychoanalysis should be about: a dialectical work, through words, seeking to mitigate excessive suffering, through the truth of each subject. it should never be a normative practice, because that is basically what makes people suffer - having to renounce their own truth to adjust to a hegemonic one.
      But, unfortunatelly, there will always be, in every field, people who are more concerned in mantaining power over other groups than with the ethics of their practice.

  • @bruceboone6635
    @bruceboone6635 11 днів тому

    hello from San Francisco

  • @henryburby6077
    @henryburby6077 17 днів тому +3

    I cannot have sex right now, so I'll theorize about it.

    • @blackeddeath
      @blackeddeath 17 днів тому

      You can have sex whenever you want >:3

  • @Life_Of_Mine_
    @Life_Of_Mine_ 17 днів тому

    Zupancic book the shortest shadow was mind blowing

  • @bruceboone6635
    @bruceboone6635 11 днів тому

    hello from the Castro district (mostly gay) in San Francisco

  • @FreeFormFemi
    @FreeFormFemi 16 днів тому +1

    Lagos Nigeria

  • @jobumaria1778
    @jobumaria1778 10 днів тому

    Bogotá Colombia

  • @R-01-mc4sk
    @R-01-mc4sk 17 днів тому

    Around 10:56 ... Does it have to be prohibited to be symbolized? Why?

    • @kaykek7174
      @kaykek7174 17 днів тому +1

      If I understand correctly, the prohibition leads to repression which in turn leads to symbolization. Without repression, a sensation we perceive as sexual is nothing more than a sensation.

    • @R-01-mc4sk
      @R-01-mc4sk 17 днів тому

      @@kaykek7174 Thanks, that's how I understood it but I wasn't sure. I find it interesting that for Freud/Lacan/etc it has to be prohibited in order to be symbolized. Couldn't it be symbolized in a more "positive" way? Like, encouraging it rather than prohibiting? Or would that be considered a kind prohibition too through a different point of view? Hope the question makes sense

    • @kaykek7174
      @kaykek7174 16 днів тому +1

      @@R-01-mc4sk In reality, yes, such as by a parent who explains that sexuality is nothing bad. The thing with psychoanalysis is that it hinges on many assumptions especially when it comes to repression so it should be enjoyed with more than a tinge of salt.

  • @ibouto177google
    @ibouto177google 17 днів тому

    nice

  • @Namuchat
    @Namuchat 10 днів тому

    Namur, Belgium

  • @dapperninji646
    @dapperninji646 17 днів тому

    What happened to all my shorts?

    • @MegaLozenge
      @MegaLozenge 17 днів тому +3

      The fundamental sexual question.

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    @virginiasheay6633 17 днів тому

    New Jersey

  • @lavendermongoose9590
    @lavendermongoose9590 17 днів тому

    philadelphia

  • @anandarupghosh9171
    @anandarupghosh9171 16 днів тому

    I am from kolkata bengal India