RECEPTIVE BODIES

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideasabsorption and e xpulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breathform the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a tho ughtful new essay collection. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floa...[Read more]