Sociality and Sexuality

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 641-655

  Bersani, Leo ^a  

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EID: 28844487675     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/448986     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Michel Foucault, "Friendship as a Way of Life," interview by R. de Ceccaty, J. Danet, and J. Le Bitoux, trans. John Johnston, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, vol. 1 of The Essential Works of Foucault, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York, 1997), pp. 136, 137, 136, 137 138
2. Sigmund Freud, "Instincts and Their Vicissitudes" (1915), The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. and ed. James Strachey, 24 vols. (London, 1953-74), 14:136, 139
3. Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921), Standard Edition, 18:112-13
4. Freud, "On Narcissism: An Introduction" (1914), Standard Edition, 14:88
5. Jacques Lacan, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954, vol. 1 of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, trans. John Forrester, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller (New York, 1991), p. 79
6. Jean Laplanche, Seduction, Translation, Drives, trans. Martin Stanton, ed. John Fletcher and Stanton (London, 1992), p. 188
7. Marcel Proust, The Captive, in Remembrance of Things Past, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and Andreas Mayor, 3 vols. (New York, 1982), 3:392-93
8. Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Standard Edition, 7:233
9. See Leo Bersani, The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (New York, 1986), pp. 37-39
10. Jean Allouch, "Pour ¡ntroduire le sexe du maître," L'Unebévue 11 (1998): 58-59, and Bersani, "Is the Rectum a Grave?" in AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, ed. Douglas Crimp (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), p. 197
11. See Tim Dean, Beyond Sexuality (Chicago, 2000)
12. See Kaja Silverman, World Spectators (Stanford, Calif., 2000)
13. Plato, The Symposium, trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, in Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper (Indianapolis, 1997), pp. 477, 481, 483, 482; hereafter abbreviated S
14. David Halperin has written brilliantly about the "feminine" paradigm to which Plato's erotic doctrine, as expressed by Diotima, is assimilated or, as Halperin puts it, is a paradigm Plato appropriates in order to "image the reciprocal and (pro)creative erotics of (male) philosophical intercourse" (David M. Halperin, "One Hundred Years of Homosexuality" and Other Essays on Greek Love [New York, 1990], p. 150). When, according to Diotima, a person pregnant with wisdom and virtue meets another soul "that is beautiful and noble and well-formed," he himself "instantly teem[s] with ideas and arguments about virtue . . . he conceives and gives birth to what he has been carrying inside him for ages" (S, p. 492). Erotic desire, as Halperin also suggests, does not lead to pregnancy but is rather caused by pregnancy; in a philosopher it climaxes in the "ejaculation" not of a baby but of "ideas . . . about virtue" (Halperin, "One Hundred Years of Homosexuality" and Other Essays on Greek Love, p. 140)
15. Foucault, The Use of Pleasure, trans. Hurley, vol. 2 of The History of Sexuality (New York, 1985), p. 232