The "Sex" of Politics: Sexual Difference and Political Ontology

为了回答这个问题--性是什么？--有必要阐述对性的本体论描述，这种描述仍然是哲学的，而不是求助于生物学或文化话语。心理分析语域的挖掘提供了本研究所倡导的将性概念化的可能性，并使我们能够思考这种概念化的影响。因此，我们可以回答另一个问题：一旦我们考虑到性别差异，什么是政治本体论？这个问题涉及的是提出政治的本体论假设：关于(人类)本性、(性)本质及其(象征性)属性的假设。

In order to respond to the question-what is sex?-it is necessary to expound an ontological description of sex that remains philosophical, without recourse to biological or cultural discourses. The mining of the psychoanalytic register affords the possibility of conceptualizing sex in the sense that this research advocates, and enables us to think through the effects of this conceptualization. Thus, we may address a further question: what is political ontology once we take into account sexual difference? This inquiry concerns what is ontologically presumed in positing the political: the assumptions about (human) nature, (sexual) essences, and their (symbolic) attributes.