The Erotic Phenomenon in the Feminine

The pleasure of desire, the end of a masculine teleology

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ID8409786
AuthorsNatalie Depraz (University of Bucharest, corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume57
Issue2
Pages167-187
Publication date2026-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071773.2026.2625485
OpenAlexW7140733602
LanguageEN
References cited17

Is pleasure universal? What is the meaning of the gendered nature of pleasure? Is there an obvious chronological teleological relationship between desire and pleasure? First desire, then pleasure. You may indeed wonder why and how it is even possible to think differently. Unless, having read my subtitle, a suspicion has already crept into some limbic corner of your brain. In what follows, I would like to situate my remarks by re-examining what, in the relationship between desire and pleasure, is “proper” to men's experience. Equally, I will explore what, in this desire-pleasure relationship, is “proper” to women's experience. To do so, I will follow the now well-established interpretative schema inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's critical philosophy, which deconstructs the supposedly universality of a conceptuality by showing its situated and gendered de facto expectations

De facto · Meaning (existential) · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Phenomenon · Pleasure · Situated · Teleology · Universality (dynamical systems) · Wonder · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre

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