「セクシュアリティ」概念再考

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  • Rethinking “Sexuality”
  • 「セクシュアリティ」概念再考--精神分析の導入に向けて
  • セクシュアリティ ガイネン サイコウ セイシン ブンセキ ノ ドウニュウ ニ ムケテ
  • 精神分析の導入に向けて
  • Toward a Freudian Understanding of the Sexual

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This article makes an effort to assess the validity and difficulty of the conceptual framework constitutive of today’s gender/sexuality studies, namely the sex-gender-sexuality triad. The theoretical assumptions which underlie current research on gender/sexuality, including feminism, gay/lesbian studies, and queer theory, is characterized by a social constructionist approach. In studies regarding sexuality, beginning in the 1970s, in part because of the publication of Michael Foucault’s influential work “The History of Sexuality” vol.1, social constructionists have argued that human sexuality should not be viewed as a natural fact but as something constructed in historically and culturally specific ways. This led to important theoretical developments, resulting in the analytical separation of gender and sexuality. Nevertheless, the very notion of sexuality remains ambiguous due to the obscure nature of the relationship between sex and sexuality.　After reviewing the achievements and problems of current research in this field, the latter part of this article provides a brief introduction to the psychoanalytic view of sexuality, which offers a radical reconceptualization of received notions of what is sexual. Freud’s psychoanalysis has been a major target of constructionist criticism, but an enlargement of the concept of sexuality in psychoanalysis can provide an alternative framework to constructionism in that it disentangles the inextricable knot between sexuality and genitality. Hitherto the fact that Freud defined the sexual without recourse to the genital, and proposed a completely new way of thinking about human sexuality, has received only scant attention. This is to say that psychoanalytic sexuality is defined in opposition to vital or organic functions such as feeding, excretion, respiration, and reproduction, and “sex” is rearticulated through this division of the sexual and non-sexual.

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  • ソシオロジ

    ソシオロジ 54 (1), 19-35,181, 2009

    社会学研究会

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