通过提出性理论的概念，将事物联系在一起有助于澄清过去50年文学和文化理论的利害关系。
1905年，弗洛伊德发表了三篇关于性理论的论文，这本书确立了精神分析的核心论点，即性是无意识形成的核心。在这本书中，埃里克·L·桑特纳将弗洛伊德的书名颠倒过来，讲述了理论的性，或者更准确地说，在自20世纪60年代以来就一直主张“理论”这个古老词汇的批判性思维中可以找到的享受模式桑特纳通过追踪自己与这一传统的关系，以及这一传统对他的智力和精神发展的影响，展开了他的论点。
将事物融为一体既是主要理论范式的思想史，也是对它们进行重新审视和更新的呼吁。在回顾他在之前的工作中提到的许多主题时，桑特纳提出了一种新的概念化思考的性爱的方法，与我们的思想和身体如何单独和集体地结合或“百科全书”在事物的中心空白处相协调。桑特纳的书没有提出“回归理论”，而是将理论作为进一步（联合国）整合“哲学、艺术和文学、神学、精神分析、政治思想等资源”的一种方式。
Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory
Untying Things Together helps to clarify the stakes of the last fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea of a sexuality of theory.
In 1905, Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established the core psychoanalytic thesis that sexuality is central to formations of the unconscious. With this book, Eric L. Santner inverts Freud’s title to take up the sexuality of theory—or, more exactly, the modes of enjoyment to be found in the kinds of critical thinking that, since the 1960s, have laid claim to that ancient word, “theory.” Santner unfolds his argument by tracking his own relationship with this tradition and the ways his intellectual and spiritual development has been informed by it.
Untying Things Together is both an intellectual history of major theoretical paradigms and a call for their reexamination and renewal. Revisiting many of the topics he has addressed in previous work, Santner proposes a new way of conceptualizing the eros of thinking, attuned to how our minds and bodies individually and collectively incorporate or “encyst” on a void at the heart of things. Rather than proposing a “return to theory,” Santner’s book simply employs theory as a way of further “(un)tying together” the resources of philosophy, art and literature, theology, psychoanalysis, political thought, and more.
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