Something is Missing
Something is Missing

Things We Don’t Want to Know About Love, Sex and Life

Author(s): Bülent Somay
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: love; sex; human relations; Bulent Somay; Lacan;Psychoanalysis (Lacan);
Summary/Abstract: These essays (aphorisms, theses, whatever you like) were written fifteen years ago in Turkish, and were published in Turkey in 2007. It was almost an idyllic, Arcadian time if considered from the point of view of today, that is, the nightmarish year 2020 when I am writing this. Trump was still your run-of-the-mill Reality TV star (who was also a millionaire), and could harm only his immediate environment. We only had to deal with the common cold and the flu, which, although deadly enough, could not even begin to compete with the Covid-19 pandemic. Turkey, Russia and India were ruled by populists with authoritarian tendencies even then; but their rule did not seem as eternal and as aggressively autocratic, bordering on fascism, as it is today.

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