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THIRTEEN TIMES, PERHAPS

Thirteen questions.

Thirteen poems.

Thirteen ways of writing what psychoanalysis still cannot say about sex, gender, and desire.

Between poetic essay and clinical thought, Thirteen Times, Perhaps explores the zones where language stumbles over the body: where the word searches for its mouth, where sex becomes phallus, where gender defines itself as the writing of the phallus to invent its own rhythms.

This book does not explain; it reveals.

It moves through discourses—analytic, political, activist—to recover the living part of speech, the part that does not close.

From sexuality to listening, from patriarchy to transition, from #MeToo to the sinthome, each poem walks the tightrope of risk: writing what is thought by getting lost.

Thirteen Times, Perhaps, because one must begin again—each time differently—so that the living can hold in language.

Proem

Sex in the mouth

How does sex come to the mind?

I owe nothing to the sex you impose on me

And why should I have to sex myself like you?

Sexuality for those who know it

What sexuality for those who know the sexual?

What in us prefers without direction

Does sexual orientation have meaning?

Song against the world’s straight bone

Patriarchy doesn’t fit—what else?

Mother-escape, mother-flow

Being a mother like a man?

I am the listening, not its object

A trans psychoanalyst?

What does fire answer to?

What does sexual arousal answer to?

Neither one nor the other, and yet both

Definitions of sex and gender in psychoanalysis?

The place where it does not close

A sexuation outside the Phallus?

All the vibrating parts

#MeToo & psychoanalysis?

We slip into forms

There is no sexual relationship—what about a gender relationship?

They speak, and it closes

What new perversion?