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Lembrar: Critique of mirror of production paralleled by Critique of mirror of desire, thereby oposing Freudo-Marxism dominating 60-70 french thought, an imposition of a eurocentric depth model to interpert a postmodern landscape where meaning is destroyed by the profusion of signification and the play of simulation, wherein only the surface remains(Though he did operate within those terms earlier in his carrer).
— Aug 20, 2025 09:10AM
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Seduction, by contrast, is feminine, to B. feminists who want to redefine sexuality in 'feminine' terms are in fact operating with a masculine 'productivist' model of sexuality.Irigaray takes feminine sexual pleasure and orgasm as the model of sexuality, arguing that a 'feminine', nonphallicentric model of sexuality would be polymorphic, disseminatory, plural and multiple, rather than linear, phallic and ejaculatory
— Aug 21, 2025 04:42AM
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Freud is right: there is only one single sexuality, one single libido – masculine. Sexuality is this distinct structure which is discriminating, centred on the phallus, castration, the name of the father, repression. There isn't any other. It serves no purpose to dream of some non-phallic sexuality, that is neither barred nor marked"
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Critique of post modern sexuality with its focus on acomplishing desire right away, the material and release of the act as an end in itself, as opposed to ancient sexuality, especifically seduction, where sex is downplayed in a long series of rituals, gifts and events, and therefore is present everywhere, contrasting with post modern sexuality, where everything is sex and therefore nothing is sexual (O.Wilde). Ex:
— Aug 21, 2025 04:08AM
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Lembrar-Marxism as ethnocentric and imperialistic, failure to account for other modes of exchange/production that don't fit into the current and previous European models (ex symbolic exchange), mirroring capitalist conceptions of production, it's centrality and a political economy rooted on utility. Limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life towards the "good use" of the social. Solar
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Tambem death fetishism and pathological dualism of life and death in cont. soc.
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Which if it where to be non existent (ex primitive societies and death rites that erase such a distinction/repression) would result in the disapereance of the the unconscious, aka critica freud, a ligar muito com Bataille, logicamente. Acabar o death and sexuality talvez
If death is nonbeing, then its sucessfull incorporation with life would destroy identity in the symbolic/imaginary register, putting in question its field of study…historicizing
Contrasting with a Batallian economy, where pure expenditure and the play of pure activity are given precedence over meaning found in binary codes-unconsciuos/conscious Eros/Thanatos…-, for ex. in jokes and the poetic language. Freudian theory as rationalistic and a reductive code, a simulation model, as the mirror of desire which-like marxism- imposes its code on experience in an imperialistic and reductive manner.
In forget Foucault: continious rejection of all attempts to detect causes behind effects, structures behind appearances(the real, power, the signified, the political, the social, desire…); A simulation saturated society in which the interplay of cores and simulacra replaces relations of power and domination. Power only, and present everywhere and nowhere, decentralized.
