1st Edition
What Can We Know About Sex? A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender
1. The Universe of Sexual Laws 2. The Experience of the Sexual Relation 3. Deconstruction of the Sexual Law 4. The Veiling of Non-Conjunction 5. Organisation of the Symbolic Order 6. How the Sexuated Logics May be Knotted together 7. Redistribution of Jouissances
Biography
Gisèle Chaboudez, a medical doctor and psychiatrist, trained with Jacques Lacan until 1981, and is now a psychoanalyst in private practice in Paris. Author of several acclaimed books, she is Vice President of the Espace Analytique group and editor of the journal Figures de la Psychanalyse.
"A fundamental step forward in the evolution of Gisèle Chaboudez’s reflection on sex and gender, What Can We Know About Sex? is an impeccable and thorough analysis of one of the most hotly debated issues today. It corrects many misunderstandings, and is precise, explicative and novel. Chaboudez provides a rigorous reading of Lacan’s work, following his articulations step by step, and demonstrating how, for psychoanalysis, there cannot be any sexual norm. Her reflection on Lacan’s notion of the feminine enhances the radically new perspective and the subversion inherent in an idea that is not yet fully appreciated in its individual and social consequences." - Dr Paola Mieli, President, Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, New York
