[lbo-talk] Naturally organized sociality and symbolically organized sociality
Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
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As sexual instinct is an instinct that shapes a _social_ relationship it is
different than some other instincts. Since culture or symbolic systems or
social structures or_social_ construction by symbol systems constitute
socialities or social relations, the social feature of biological sexuality
impinges on that social structure in a way that other instincts like thirst or
hunger do not. Thirst and hunger relate body and object. Sex relates body and
body, i.e. is social.
This why sexual instinct impinges on _social _structure in a way that other
instincts do not. It is directly and immediately social.
As humans are a uniquely social species, the social , and therefore the
cultural (which is essentially social; the symbolic is founded in sociality)
has much more pervasive importance in our lives than it does in other species.
This is the underlying truth of the cultural anthropology schools like
Levi-Straussian structuralism. It is this principle that Butler is correctly
championing. Ironically, the exception to this principle in her area of
emphasis, sexuality.
On sex uniting the natural and the social, see quote from Marx from Econ and
Philosophic Manuscripts of 18844 previously posted.
Br'er Rabbit
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