1st Edition

Sexual Ambiguities

By Genevieve Morel Copyright 2011
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

How does one become a man or a woman? Psychoanalysis shows that this is never an easy task and that each of us tackles it in our own, unique way. In this important and original study, the author focuses on what analytic work with psychotic subjects can teach us about the different solutions human beings can construct to the question of sexual identity.Through a careful exposition of Lacanian... Read more
Introduction , Psychoanalysis and the Real , Sex in science and in psychoanalysis , Reproduction and death: the subject between medicine and psychoanalysis , Sexual Difference , Sexuation: classificatory thinking does not exhaust the question , Phallic function, function of the symptom , Psychoanalytic anatomy: the three moments of sexuation , Contradicted sexes , Sexuation and Psychosis , Transsexualism and sexual classification , The push-to-the-woman , Push-to-the-woman and the clinic of sexuation , Conclusion

Biography

Genevieve Morel