The Perspective of Descriptions of Sexuality in Emmanuel Levinas’s Phenomenology of Eros through Freudian Psychoanalysis

Konuta Asahi

doi:10.18910/78347

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エマニュエル・レヴィナスのエロスの現象学におけるセクシュアリティの記述の展望 : フロイト精神分析を通して
エマニュエル　レヴィナス　ノ　エロス　ノ　ゲンショウガク　ニ　オケル　セクシュアリティ　ノ　キジュツ　ノ　テンボウ　フロイト　セイシン　ブンセキ　ヲ　トオシテ

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Using Freudian psychoanalysis, this paper attempts to unravel descriptions of sexuality, which in his later years Emmanuel Levinas considered “perspectives to explore” in his phenomenology of Eros. Despite Levinas’s criticism of Freud, a theory of sexuality in Freudian psychoanalysis allows not only the embodiment of queer descriptions of the sexuality of Levinas, but also an understanding of the signifi cance of these descriptions against a sort of totality. By demonstrating this point mainly on the basis of Leo Bersani’s Freudian body (1986), this paper explains how the descriptions concern a sort of “masochism” and points out the signifi cance of this interpretation. In other words, through immanent and philological approaches showing one of the problems of sexuality, which Levinas called “perspectives to explore,” the paper clarifi es what Levinas left as “perspectives” in his descriptions of sexuality.

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年報人間科学

年報人間科学 42 1-14, 2021-03-31

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

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CRID: 1390290699641976320

NII Article ID: 120006954357

NII Book ID: AN0020011X

DOI: 10.18910/78347

HANDLE: 11094/78347

ISSN: 02865149

Text Lang: ja

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