Divergencia: inquietantes manifestaciones del amor, el sexo, el derecho y otras instituciones

Abstract

The use of the concept of divergence in considering various manifestations of love and sexuality allows us to examine and understand them with greater precision than when thinking about them in terms of “the natural” and “the deviant”. Likewise, understanding divergence in the very constitution of subjectivity detaches us from the pretense of finding wholeness in a person or in a relationship. In contrast to hypotheses committed to explain sexual repression as an instrument of capitalist domination of workers, divergence surfaces at the very heart of bourgeois sexual jouissance: another type of pleasure, the jouissance of feeling morally superior by setting strict limits on sex and sexuality. For a better understanding of these questions, this essay suggests the use of the method of anadialectics, originated in Latin America’s own philosophy of liberation, as a procedural complement to the analytical category of divergence.