Sexuality and psychoanalysis : philosophical criticisms / edited by Jens De Vleminck and Eran Dorfman.

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2010.

250 pages ; 24 cm.

What is frightening about sexual pleasure? - introducing Lacan's jouissance into Freudian psychoanalysis via Plato and Aristotle / Paul Moyaert -- Sextimacy - Freud, mortality, and a reconsideration of the role of sexuality in psychoanalysis / Adrian Johnston -- Death, libido, and negative ontology in the theory of drives / Vladimir Safatle -- Love of truth, true love, and the truth about love / Ruth Ronen -- Derrida and Lacan - an impossible friendship? / Charles Shepherdson -- The sexual animal and the primal scene / Elissa Marder -- Between disposition, trauma, and history - how Oedipal was Dora? / Philippe Van Haute & Tomas Geyskens -- Foucault versus Freud - on Sexuality and the unconscious / Eran Dorfman -- The psyche and the social - Judith Butler's politicizing of psychoanalytical theory / Veronica Vasterling -- Foucault, Lacan, and the concept of technique / Cecilia Sjöholm -- Between signifier and jouissance - Lacan with Teresa / Ari Hirvonen -- Painting as hysteria - Deleuze on Bacon / Tomas Geyskens -- Epilogue - sexuality and the quarrel between philosophy and psychoanalysis / Eran Dorfman.

Includes bibliographical references.