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Volumen 10 | Nº 3
NOVEMBER 2020 - FEBRUARY 2021
[pp. 23-26]
Unbearable strangeness
Sense 8 ❘ Straczynski, M., Wachowski, L., Wachowski, L. ❘ 2015Universidad Nacional de Formosa, Argentina
Abstract
The lacanian concept of extimacy allows to do a reading about the present pandemic situation, with the consequent lockdown of the subjects “socially isolated”. It is possible to think about this context in notions like segregation and hate to the Other, like a stranger agent who is tried to eradicate, because of the difference that we find eerily familiar: the way that they enjoy. The question arises of how to think tolerance to the jouissance of the Other, which is experienced as unbearable and seeks to eliminate.
The Netflix series Sense 8 is taken as the setting that allows these concepts to be linked, from a logic posed as a fiction of a common enjoyment of bodies.
Keywords: Extimacy ❘ segregation ❘ hate ❘ body ❘ jouissance
Volume 10 | Nro 3
Ethics in pandemic times
