Between desire and pleasure : a Deleuzian theory of sexuality / [electronic resource]
Beckman, Frida,author.
Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman explores the possibility of recovering a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work. She thereby makes a definitive contribution to cultural, conceptual and political debates about sexuality.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Introduction -- A Nonlinear History of Sexuality: Deleuze with Foucault -- Psychoanalysis Unhinged: Deleuze with Lacan, Klein, and Reich -- Folding, Individuation, and the Pleasurable Body -- Orgasmic Feminism -- Disabling Sex: Inventing a People who are Missing -- Becoming-Animal and the Posthuman Orgasm -- Capitalism and Sexuality -- Epilogue: Swedish Sin, or the Importance of Remaining Curious -- Bibliography.
Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman explores the possibility of recovering a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work. She thereby makes a definitive contribution to cultural, conceptual and political debates about sexuality.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Sex
Sexual excitement.
Sex (Psychology)
Desire (Philosophy)