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MENEZES, Luís Carlos. Sexuality and postmodernity. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2008, vol.31, n.47, pp. 44-47. ISSN 0101-3106.

The author emphasizes the unveilling of an indetermination, an a priori unforeseeability in the core of Freud’s notion of sexuality, which makes it, in the singularity it takes on in each one, irreducible to any design that seeks to forge order and foreseeability of the human condition in its social insertion. The Freudian sexual revealed by Psychoanalysis is therefore, from the very beginning, refractory to any rationalistic project, be it scientific or political, characteristic of the ideals of modernity. In today’s Western societies, liberality and a certain freedom in relation to sexual behavior, in spite of the gains they represent, seem to paradoxically lead to a “subdued (domesticated)”, conformistic sexuality, to a sham copy (pretense, simulacrum) of the sexual as the contemporary form of its repression.

Palavras-chave : Modernity/post-modernity; The sexual; Totalitarianism.

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