1st Edition
Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation Exploring Logical Consistency and Clinical Consequences
By Guy Le Gaufey
Copyright 2020
126 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
126 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
126 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan’s formulae of sexuation, examining both their logical consistency and clinical consequences. Are there two different entities named Man and Woman, separated by the gulf of sexual difference? Or is it better to conceive of this difference as something purely relative, each human being situated on a sort of continuum... Read more
Prologue; Chapter 1: The logic of the sexual fault; Chapter 2: Towards a critical reading of the formulae of sexuation; Chapter 3: Some clinical consequences of the logical difference between the sexes; Chapter 4: Scholion: a misuse of metaphor
Biography
Guy Le Gaufey was a member of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris and co-founded the Lacanian journal Littoral and the École lacanienne de psychanalyse. He has written and published widely in French, English, and Spanish and has also translated books from English to French, including the work of Philip Larkin (see www.legaufey.fr).
