Sexual Ambiguities

by Morel, Genevieve; Watson, Lindsay

• ISBN13: 9781855755840
• ISBN10: 185575584X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-30
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

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, Genevieve Morel 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 theory, Morel argues that classical gender theory is misguided in its notion of gender identity and that Lacan's concept of sexuation is more precise. Clinical case studies illustrate how sexuation occurs and the ambiguities that may surround it. In psychosis, these ambiguities are often central, and Morel explores how they may or may not be resolved thanks to the individual's own constructions. This book is not only a major contribution to gender studies but also an invaluable aid to the clinician dealing with questions of sexual identity.

Author Biography

Genevive Morel is a psychoanalyst practising in Paris and in Lille. She is a member of the Association Lilloise pour la Psychanalyse et son Histoire and of the group Savoir et Cliniques. She teaches at the University of Paris VIII.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Psychoanalysis and the Real
Sex in science and in psychoanalysis	p. 3
Reproduction and death: the subject between medicine and psychoanalysis	p. 25
Sexual Difference
Sexuation: classificatory thinking does not exhaust the question	p. 57
Phallic function, function of the symptom	p. 93
Psychoanalytic anatomy: the three moments of sexuation	p. 129
Contradicted sexes	p. 163
Sexuation and Psychosis
Transsexualism and sexual classification	p. 183
The push-to-the-woman	p. 217
Push-to-the-woman and the clinic of sexuation	p. 245
Conclusion	p. 277
References	p. 283
Index	p. 293
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