Sexuality Beyond Consent : : Risk, Race, Traumatophilia / / Avgi Saketopoulou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Saketopoulou, Avgi,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Sexual Cultures ; 61
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Radical alternatives to consent and traumaContemporary discourse on sex and sexuality is fixated on consent as a means of mitigating danger and avoiding forms of sexual trauma. Sexuality Beyond Consent dares us to step into a different territory, where we do not guard the self but risk experience. Avgi Saketopoulou maintains that we are overly focused on healing trauma and need to reroute our attention to what subjects do with their trauma, in the process taking up a series of provocative questions: Why is sexuality beyond consent worth risking, and how does risk become a way of soliciting the future? Why might surrendering to the fact that your pain is not going away enable you to do things with pain? In what ways are race and racism shot through with the erotic? How can something proximal to violation become a site of flourishing? Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit consent, that is not about maintaining control but risks sexuality beyond consent. Moving between clinical and cultural case studies, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter, to show us how the force of the erotic surges through the aesthetic domain.Grounding its arguments in the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique, performance studies, and philosophy, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the rousing of the strange in ourselves, not in order to master trauma but to rub up against it, may open us up to encounters with opacity and unique forms of care.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Erotics of the Terribly Beautiful -- 1 To Suffer Pleasure: Limit Experience and Transgression -- 2 The Draw to Overwhelm: Limit Consent and the Retranslation of Enigma -- 3 Risking Sexuality Beyond Consent: Overwhelm and Inciting Traumatisms -- 4 Toward a Theory of Traumatophilia -- 5 Exigent Sadism -- Epilogue: Like a Spider or Spit -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author