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The Image of the Body
in Psychoanalysis

J-A MILLER

The Communist Idea &
the Question of Terror

ALAIN BADIOU

I Saw Him, Blushed,
Grew Pale
FRANÇOIS REGNAULT

A Desire Without
Cause?
MARIE-HÉLÈNE BROUSSE

The Other Who Does
Not Exist

PIERRE-GILLES GUÉGUEN

The Two Sexes and
the Other Jouissance
ÉRIC LAURENT

The Reverseof the
Hysterical Symptom
ÉRIC LAURENT

Wall of Screens
GÉRARD WAJCMAN

Love Versus
"Symptomatic Love"
ALAN ROWAN

Better Living through
Facebook
NANCY BARTON

Stations of the Arkwork
HUNTER HUNT-
HENDRIX

Empty Centers
COLLEEN A
SPER

God as the Big Other
SLAVOJ Z
IZEK


          

The Two Sexes and
The Other Jouissance








Éric Laurent

 


[...]Freud had pointed out that men and women only have one way of representing sex: the phallic simulacrum and the fact that it turned what women want into something to be guessed. This was not taken well and his disciples, particularly women, were divided about how this should be understood. Did this mean that men, once again, were trying to tell the truth about women? Did it mean that the bearers of the penis had special insight into the phallus, an insight such that they could inveigle women by supposing a kind of masochism inherent to feminine eros, Darwinistically adapting women to the pain of childbirth? Was the mulier dolorosa seen as justified as a social model? This was the only really interesting debate in the psychoanalytic movement in the thirties. But it was quickly covered up. The success of children's psychoanalysis made it possible to return to the serious stuff: motherhood, good and bad mothers, children's education, and a prophylaxis of sex diseases which it has always spearheaded.

It took Jacques Lacan to open Pandora's box once again. He spared no effort to return to the question of sex in psychoanalysis. He denounced the false conceptual necessity and the veritable puritanical invasion which took place in the '60s in psychoanalysis.[...]




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