[lbo-talk] Naturally organized sociality and symbolically organized sociality

[Charles Brown]

As sexual instinct is an instinct that shapes a _social_ relationship it
is different than some other instincts. Since culture or symbolic
systems or social structures or_social_ construction by symbol systems
constitute socialities or social relations,  the social feature of
biological sexuality impinges on that social structure in a way that
other instincts like thirst or hunger do not.  Thirst and hunger relate
body and object. Sex relates body and body, i.e. is social.

This why sexual instinct impinges on _social _structure in a way that
other instincts do not. It is directly and immediately social. 

As humans are a uniquely social species, the social , and therefore the

 cultural (which is essentially social; the symbolic is founded in
sociality) has much more pervasive importance in our lives than it does
in other species.  This is the underlying truth of  the cultural
anthropology schools like Levi-Straussian structuralism.  It is this
principle that Butler is correctly championing. Ironically, the
exception to this principle in her area of emphasis, sexuality. 

On sex uniting the natural and the social, see quote from Marx from
Econ and Philosophic Manuscripts of 18844 previously posted.

Br'er Rabbit

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