Autoeroticism: Rethinking Self-Love with Derrida and Irigaray

Anderson, Ellie

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“…That was blissful – everything, the little insects you could feel, I really loved that.As in Audre Lorde’s view, the erotic here consists of a sensual, deeply spiritual experience that connects with the self as well as beyond the self. It resonates with Ellie Anderson’s view on autoeroticism, drawing on Luce Irigaray (1985), as a ‘love of self that is fluid, mobile and self-othering’ (Anderson, 2017: 66). The self here was experienced not as an enclosed entity, but as one that opens up to an energetic flow that deeply revitalized it and initiated a process of continuous change.…”

Section: Autoeroticism and Female Intimacy Beyond The Sexualmentioning

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Yoni touch and talk: Sacralizing the female sex through tantra

Plancke¹

2019

Sexualities

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This article examines women’s tantric retreats in Northwest Europe aimed at developing female sexual subjectivity. Based on ethnographic study and in-depth interviews, it argues that the retreats induced among participants critical distancing from socially dominant representations of (self-)objectified femininity and pornified female sexuality. It highlights how, through foregrounding a view of the female sex as sacred, the workshops fostered experiences of embodying the divine as grounds for female worthiness. It further illustrates how intimate touch among women and self-touch were encouraged as ways to establish an erotic connection with a vital flow beyond a narrow focus on sexual activity.

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Section: Autoeroticism and Female Intimacy Beyond The Sexualmentioning

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Yoni touch and talk: Sacralizing the female sex through tantra

Plancke¹

2019

Sexualities

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“…6. For more on autoeroticism as a form of self-othering for the poststructural subject, see Anderson (2017). For more on the power of the erotic and its connection with collective joy in everyday pursuits, see Lorde (2007 [1978]).…”

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Dionysus meets neoliberalism: Zumba® Fitness and the call to Zorbitality

Sadlier

2019

Sexualities

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In the 21st century, asexuality has become synonymous with sexual orientation, being described as a ‘lack’ of sexual attraction. This definition is problematic, as it assumes that everybody is sexual and that sexuality is immutable. With the rise of a postfeminist culture, the lived experiences of asexual-identified women are in danger of being lost within static narratives of frigidity and singledom. In response, this article proposes an emergent concept for reconfiguring female (a)sexualities through collective ecstatic motion – Zorbitality – drawing on the global Latin dance fitness phenomenon, Zumba® Fitness, as a central example. I firstly conceptualise Zorbitality, via Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of ‘flow’ and Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘rhizome’. Secondly, I examine the emergence of Zumba® Fitness as a contemporary Dionysian rite, mediated by digital culture, capitalism and globalisation, through my insights from the ZIN™ Academy and Believe party (London, July 2015) and work as a Zumba® Fitness instructor. Finally, I conceptualise Zumba® as (i) an asexual space, (ii) a celebration of the autoerotic body and (iii) an invocation of West African collective movement rites. Zorbitality emerges as a resistant imaginary, where differences in sexuality cease to matter and where personal movement styles are celebrated within a set of shared rhythms.

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Solar Goop

Jagoe¹

2021

South Atlantic Quarterly

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Would we know solarity if we encountered it? And where do we look for the potential openings that such a new energy system could enable? Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share has emerged as a key text in the theorization of energy because of his distinction between the restricted economy of capitalism versus a general economy most clearly figured by the energetic exuberance and abundance of the sun. This article makes use of Bataille’s deliberately unsettling and destabilizing fictions, such as “The Solar Anus” and Story of the Eye, to analyze and assess a set of practices that appear to be unlikely candidates for the utopian visions now predictably connected with the solar. When read in relation to Luce Irigaray’s account of female subjectivity, practices of entrepreneurial feminized self-care, exemplified here by Gwyneth Paltrow’s much-criticized Goop Lab, open up a distinct and unexplored sense of the social relations that could shape the concatenation of solar and solidarity called solarity. This article traces this potential through an enquiry into feminist popular culture and other modes of relationality, such as Sivanandha Radha’s yogic invocation of Light. The overall aim of the essay is to provide another way of mapping solarity—not through the materiality of solar panels and promise of free energy, but through the complex practices of feminized bodies, solace, and solidarity.

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Autoeroticism: Rethinking Self-Love with Derrida and Irigaray

Cited by 5 publications

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Yoni touch and talk: Sacralizing the female sex through tantra

Yoni touch and talk: Sacralizing the female sex through tantra

Dionysus meets neoliberalism: Zumba® Fitness and the call to Zorbitality

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