“Ardent Masturbation” (Descartes, Freud, Proust, et al.)
“Ardent Masturbation” (Descartes, Freud, Proust, et al.)
A major current of Western thought (exemplified in such figures as Descartes, Proust, and Freud) has argued for the disjunction between the self and the world, a disjunction to which the human subject responds through epistemological appropriation and possession of otherness. Analysis of a short case study by Freud defines the goal of such appropriative activity as a masturbatory autonomy of the self. A few modern philosophers have, however, suggested alternatives to what this discussion calls a masturbatory mode of thought.
Keywords: Descartes‘ ontology, solitariness, the causa sui project, sexual object-choices, being-with-the-world
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