{"id":2628,"date":"2025-11-28T10:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/senza-categoria\/chapter-7-the-sexual-self\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:05:18","slug":"chapter-7-the-sexual-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/en\/pubblications\/chapter-7-the-sexual-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 7: The Sexual Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The chapter reframes the self as a field phenomenon\u2014an emergent process at the contact boundary\u2014then defines the \u201csexual self\u201d as the cultivated field where desire, imagination, and care turn potential into shared creation. Eros functions as an aesthetic, interruptive force that calls us back to the body and to co-authorship with the world; an erotic body is one that invites possibilities and participation, not mere exposure. Opposed to this is the \u201cob-scene,\u201d where pornography reduces the body to inert flesh severed from context. Sexuality, especially when joined with love, uniquely enables temporary dissolution of ego boundaries in conditions of equality and vulnerability, yet we mistakenly credit this sense of fullness to the partner rather than to the erotic-relational experience itself. Sexuality can heal\u2014or become toxic\u2014depending on our willingness to face finitude and limit. Without the erotic components of arousal, mutual care, and boundary-softening, the drive toward self risks collapsing into individualism, control, and dominance. The authors critique medical reductionism, arguing that desire organizes physiology, not vice versa. In long-term bonds, hyper-organization and risk control can extinguish Eros; the antidote is ongoing, shared renewal\u2014asking what we are creating together now. 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