The Impossibility Of The Sexual Act

This does not sound like a title that makes sense, and clearly it doesn't make sense at the level of what we, ordinarily, take the sexual act to be, that is, at the social or human level. However at the level of the subject, the sexual act is silence. There is a syncopation of signifiers when it comes to dealing with what is involved in sex. To syncopate a word is to shorten it by dropping out an interior letter or syllable, for instance the word 'never' becoming 'ne'er'.…