Philosophy in the Boudoir: Enlightenment love-to-wisdom and erotic

Authors

  • Vsevolod Kuznetsov Vinnytsia National Technical University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2311-4022
  • Lubov Nerusheva Kotsiubynskyj State Teachers' training University of Vinnytsia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31649/sent05.01.022

Keywords:

philosophical pornography, libido, sexuality, reality principle, surrogate of religion, psychoanalysis, femininity, natural law, pleasure, cult of Reason

Abstract

The article examines the role of the philosophical and erotic novel («philosophical pornography») within the Enlightenment worldview. The object of analysis is the anonymous novel «Therese the Philosopher». The authors identify four functions of philosophical pornography: (1) resolving the psychoanalytic conflict (the conflict between the «ego» and the «id») by bringing unconscious meanings to the threshold of awareness; thus, sexual freedom is consistent with the principle of reality based on natural law and makes philosophising possible as such; (2) simulation of religion, embodied, in particular, in sexual and mystical practices, conditions of joining libertinage; (3) displacement of motherhood from the image of femininity as a transformation intended for debauchery; (4) agitation, spreading enlightenment ideology among neophytes.

References

Gorsky, D. P. (Ed.). (1990). Philosophy of Love in 2 pt. [In Russian]. Moscow: Politizdat.

Freud, S. (1991). The Ego and the Id. [In Russian]. Tbilisi: Merani.

Kuznetsov, V. N. (1981). French Materialism of the 18th Century. [In Russian]. Moscow: Mysl.

Sade, D. A. Fr. de. (1992). Philosophy in the Boudoir; Therese the Philosopher: French Erotic Novel of the 18th Century. [In Russian]. Minsk: Belfaks.

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Published

2002-04-22

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Kuznetsov, V., & Nerusheva, L. (2002). Philosophy in the Boudoir: Enlightenment love-to-wisdom and erotic . Sententiae, 5(1), 22–34. https://doi.org/10.31649/sent05.01.022

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2002): SENTENTIAE

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