Deudon, Aurélien

The equivocity of eros (Elements for a phenomenology of sexuality) - 2021.


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The French phenomenological erotics have undoubtedly worked to liberate the conception of human sexuality from the traditional issues to which it had been reduced (reproduction, genitality, pleasure). However, animated less by existential angelism than by an androcentrism as tenacious as it was unseen, these erotics gave rise to descriptions of sex without sexes. Against this tacit monosexualism, we try to extend the intuition of Simone de Beauvoir, who, as early as The Second Sex, envisaged a distinction between male and female eros. In addition to re-exploring this duality of eros, this article relies on the phenomenological analysis of erotic caresses to propose the presence of three existential sexes.