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Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

Saketopoulou, Avgi

Paperback

Series: Sexual Cultures, Book 61

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesSexuality

ISBN10: 1479820253
ISBN13: 9781479820252
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Feb 7 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Radical alternatives to consent and trauma

Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit consent, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can solicit the future.

Moving between clinical and cultural case studies, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter, to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain. Putting the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique, performance studies, and philosophy, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the strange in ourselves, not to master trauma but to rub up against it, can open us up to encounters with opacity. The book concludes by theorizing currents of sadism that, when pursued ethically, can animate unique forms of interpersonal and social care.

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