PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alphonso Lingis, Oedipus Complex
25 Feb 2014
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Sex as rooted in biology but transcends it. Bodily disposition shaped by our social experiences an it shapes our sexual aim". Erotogenic zones bodily desires shaped by experience. We all start as a bisexual and involves a active (masculine) and a passive (feminine) Eroticism is: emotional eroticism, physical eroticism, religious eroticism. Alphonso lingis (experience raw emotions) room with shark tank, beehive while in washroom, all mirrors, made people have sex while at dinner. Excitement, awe, enjoyment of breaking down of boundaries. Other side is a sense of disgust, violence, disorientation, confusion. It is something about human existence revealed in this double orientation towards basic sexuality. There is a taboo/prohibition against sex (should be happening in private not in public) There is no better way to know death than through sexuality. What we are as humans is discontinuous beings (individuals) Everyone has different experiences, no one has that same one as you despite you trying to communicate it.
