{ "item_title" : "Sex and Nothing", "item_author" : [" Alejandro Cerda-Rueda "], "item_description" : "From 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 Nothing embarks 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.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/78/220/338/1782203389_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "51.99", "online_price" : "51.99", "our_price" : "51.99", "club_price" : "51.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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