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The Dialectic of Sex
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February 8th, 2005

The Dialectic of Sex

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  1. pretentious marxian guy

    It means that those who explain culture through material circumstances reject the idea that our economic system is merely a playing out of psycho-sexual desires, because that argument sets up its terms as absolutes and then fits every experience into the framework. As such the explanation is historically situated within the time from which those categories developed. Instead of deriving our knowledge of psycho-sexuality from lived experience, it attempts to explain lived experience by a bunch of pre-determined categories (unlike historical materialism).

  2. Detixce

    In your first sentence, what is the ‘because’ referring to? (Let’s assume ‘those who explain culture through material circumstances’ = cultural materialists). I take it to mean ‘cultural materialists reject the psycho-sexual explanation because it sets up its terms as absolutes and then fits every experience into the framework’. So am i right in thinking that cultural materialists work the other way around, derive some kind of model or absolute rule from the context?

    So then the psycho-sexual approach “attempts to explain lived experience by a bunch of pre-determined categories”.

    OK i think in understand now, thanks!

  3. Salvar

    http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

  4. snugglepuss

    i got lost before the first letter 8s

  5. Xu-kitty

    It means the Author that wrote that may be a self-absorbed, pretentious ass, to resort to logorrhoea. XP

    Ugh, uhmm… lesse, cut, cut, cut, chop, cut…
    People are dismissing that theory (that I never heard of), because it makes Marxist, even though there is no proof for or against. Except that the Author isn’t applying it to Econ. But, (according to the Author) it applies to gender relations, ie; the Author views women as the Poleteriat.

    Short short version:
    Author is saying: “Men are capitalist pig-dogs, my vagaina’d comrades.”

  6. Jen

    It means that some genius out there figured out they could make big $$$ with a thesaurus and the wonder of tertiary education’s captive audiences.

  7. lexo

    It means that Marxists think that money drives everything and disagree with those who think that sex drives everything.

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