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Receptive bodies /

Bersani, Leo,

Receptive bodies / Leo Bersani. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forewarning -- Merde alors -- Why sex? -- Sensual sucking and sociality -- Force in progress -- Receptivity and being-in -- Staring.

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas--absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath--form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in space. Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body's capacities to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud, Foucault, and film studies, or anyone who has ever stopped to ponder the give and take of human corporeality.

9780226579931 022657993X

org.bibliovault.9780226579931 University of Chicago Press

GBB8K7052 bnb

019109597 Uk


Human body (Philosophy)
Human body--Erotic aspects.
Sex (Psychology)
Sexual excitement.
Psychoanalysis.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Corps humain--Aspect �erotique.
Sexualit�e (Psychologie)
Excitation sexuelle.
Psychanalyse.
eroticism.
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY--Movements--Psychoanalysis.
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Humanism.
Human body--Erotic aspects
Human body (Philosophy)
Psychoanalysis
Sex (Psychology)
Sexual excitement

B105.B64 / B4695 2018eb

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