1st Edition

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference

By Jennifer Yusin Copyright 2024
104 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

104 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

104 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyzes the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterized by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of essentiality and normativity. In this book, Jennifer Yusin presents a psychoanalytic study that engages with clinical cases, philosophies of sex and gender, and psychoanalytic writings about sexual... Read more

1.Preface  2. A note about my method: subjective topology  3. Some considerations of the changing of psychoanalytic terminology  4. On constructing a psychoanalytic lexicon  5. Starting points: sex and nomination  5. Names-of-the-father: a first approach  6. : one sex  7. Psychoanalytic invariance  8. Some preliminary remarks regarding nomination  9. Maternal investment  10. Symbolic nomination and redoubling  11. The link between speech and nomination  13. The difficulty of interpretation  14. Signifiers ‘man’, ‘woman’: semblant of body 15. The psychoanalytical group  16. The discourse of the hysteric and jouissance  17. All-phallic space/non-all phallic space 18. Letters and body  19. Signifier and symptom  20. Mark in signifier 21. Sexual difference: a radical alternative  22. Return to a remark in signifier  23. Formations of voice  24. Fourth consistency  25. Assumption of nomination  26. A return to our psychoanalytical lexicon

Biography

Jennifer Yusin is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Philadelphia, Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Drexel University, USA.