Sex and Circuses
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/gja3dq62Keywords:
Sex, sublimation, de-sublimation, Dionysian, desireAbstract
The new injunction is no longer repression but enjoy! – echoing Kafka’s libertine father. We are lulled into the false freedom of de-sublimation, where sex is a set of techniques. The alternative? Visceral love, expressed in Sartre’s Saint Genet - and Lévinas’s notion of desire, related to a radical ethical stance.
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