Pornographic Culture and Erotic Culture: Logics of Desire and Psychopathological Forms

Pornographic culture is characterized by enjoyment imperative, whereas erotic culture is characterized by unattainable fulfilment of one's desire. The "cultural existentials" structured by these cultures are conceived as the inclined plane on which human presence moves and unfolds and are examined in order to try to grasp their resonances with the various forms of suffering characteristic of contemporary age, establishing a dialogue between some distinctive anthropological forms of late modernity - namely homo nevroticus, homo œconomicus, and homo dissipans - and the forms of psychopathological existence in which they can result and crystallize.