Sexual Desire as an Experience of Alterity

Olaya Fernández Guerrero

E-LOGOS, 2015, vol. 2015, issue 1, 49-58

Abstract: This paper analyzes the field of sexual desire within the frame of phenomenological philosophy. That approach enables an understanding of sexuality as a peculiar modality of relation with alterity. This is due to the fact that, in sexual desire, there are three dimensions of otherness: first, the other's body/corporeality that provokes desire; second, the imaginative level that constitutes a space for transcendence with/towards/by means of the other; and last, the sociocultural level, where the rules are established for controlling sexual desire and fixing its admitted and forbidden versions.

Keywords: Alterity; Body; Desire; Phenomenology; Sexuality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.413

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