A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference

ISBN-13: 9781032431659 / Miękka / 2023 / 136 str.

Jennifer Yusin

Opis

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyses the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterised by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of essentiality and normativity.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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