A review by mlcharacter
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia by Avgi Saketopoulou

5.0

For several years I've been telling people that Ellen Samuels' Fantasties of Identification is my favorite recent academic book, but this one is my new one. It's psychoanalysis, so surprising that I am into it, but I think I must be Laplanchean rather than Freudian. Looking forward to others of Saketopoulou's work (the co-authored one with Ann Pellegrini is up next I think) and quite sure this is going to show up referenced in my own future writing.
Major points for my reference:
-crtiique of human aspects 'affirmative consent' cannot encompass
-Laplanchean understanding of human "identity" made up of 1) enignma 2) Otherness and 3) the social milieu in which we come into being
-limit consent as an alternative
-discussion of trauma - traumatophobia, traumatophilia - as well as repetition, memory, etc