E-LOGOS 2015, 22(1):49-58 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.413

Sexual Desire as an Experience of Alterity

Olaya Fernández Guerrero
Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave.

Keywords: Alterity, Body, Desire, Phenomenology, Sexuality.

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.

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