sexual anesthesia

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sexual anesthesia

anaphrodisia.
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Sexual difference is pre-discursive; it precedes the symbolic order and must be defended against the threat of what Kristeva dubs "sexual anesthesia." A "blurring" or effacement of sexual difference would result in "the end of a certain kind of desire and sexual pleasure.
Zizek with French feminism: enjoyment and the feminine logic of the "not-all"
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