Can we fall in love with everything

Borderline forms of the amorous relation

Bibliographic Data

ID4123922
AuthorsAgnès Giard (0000-0001-9031-0237, International Council on Mining and Metals, corresponding author)
TranslatorsAnthony Stavrianakis
Year2021
Volume75
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerrain (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0760-5668 • E-ISSN: 1777-5450
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/12wer
OpenAlexW4405276323
LanguageEN
References cited13

In 2018, in Japan, a 35-year-old employee celebrates his marriage to a digital pop idol, Hatsune Miku, causing a media storm. The reasons that drive so many people here and elsewhere to form privileged relationships with non-humans, even to the point of giving them the semblance of conjugal bliss, are misunderstood. In order to elucidate why certain objects arouse public debate concerning their power of seduction, a detour through anthropology is necessary, which allows us to study all the borderline forms of the amorous relation. In doing so, it is a matter of questioning the idea according to which such bonds are the result of aberration. What does an amorous and/or sexual attachment to a non-human - a robot, a doll, an organ, a car or a tree - reveal about the society that prescribes or proscribes it

Aesthetics · Art · BLISS · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Computer Science · French Urban and Social Studies · Gender Studies · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology

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