Epicures in Kissing: Asexuality in Venus and Adonis

IF 0.8 4区社会学 Q3 CULTURAL STUDIES

Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1215/10407391-10713833

Steven Swarbrick

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Abstract

Freud’s readings of Shakespeare are notorious for their universalizing claims about human sexuality. What is less commonly noticed, and what this article foregrounds, is the asexuality that underwrites psychoanalytic theories of sex. Venus and Adonis shows that Shakespeare’s poem is replete with asexual encounters. In other words, it is not Adonis alone who spurns sexual romance. Venus’s insatiable kissing is a textbook example of Freud’s point about the paradoxicality of sex: when it comes to the pleasures of kissing, Freud says, “It’s a pity I can’t kiss myself.” This essay reads asexuality not as a particular orientation; rather, it asks how asexuality, psychoanalysis, and Shakespeare disorient our readings of sex.

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接吻中的享乐:维纳斯和阿多尼斯的无性恋

弗洛伊德对莎士比亚的解读因其对人类性行为的普遍化主张而臭名昭著。很少有人注意到的是，这篇文章强调的是，无性恋为性的精神分析理论提供了基础。《维纳斯与阿多尼斯》表明，莎士比亚的诗中充满了无性接触。换句话说，并不是只有阿多尼斯一个人拒绝性浪漫。维纳斯永不满足的亲吻是弗洛伊德关于性的悖论观点的教科书范例:当谈到亲吻的乐趣时，弗洛伊德说:“很遗憾我不能亲吻自己。”这篇文章并不把无性恋看作是一种特定的取向;相反，它问的是无性恋、精神分析和莎士比亚是如何让我们对性的解读迷失方向的。

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期刊介绍： differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies first appeared in 1989 at the moment of a critical encounter—a head-on collision, one might say—of theories of difference (primarily Continental) and the politics of diversity (primarily American). In the ensuing years, the journal has established a critical forum where the problematic of differences is explored in texts ranging from the literary and the visual to the political and social. differences highlights theoretical debates across the disciplines that address the ways concepts and categories of difference—notably but not exclusively gender—operate within culture.