Synthesis of theoretical propositions on gender in psychoanalysis (2021)

Synthesis of theoretical propositions on gender in psychoanalysis (2021)

Published online, June 2021.

 

Here are some of the elaborations made possible by psychoanalytic clinical experience regarding gender and related issues, presented in chronological order (different from their order of publication).

 

Definition of gender in psychoanalysis (2013)

Gender is the limit situated both outside and inside sex, the shoreline or margin of sex capable of revealing its depth of field. Gender appears under the effect of the sexual; it questions the unconscious knowledges of sexual difference, and makes identifications waver until they are renewed. Thus, gender undoes sex and creates sex in the in-between of its intermittent disturbance, at the instant of stability in which it is felt.

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Mapping of gender, sex, sexuation (2013)

	Imaginary	Symbolic	Real
Gender	object	process	impossible instance
Sex	instance	object	impossible process
Sexuation	process	instance	impossible object

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Borromean mapping of sex, gender and sexuation on the Borromean knot (levogyre) (2016)

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Mapping of the identitarian, identity, identification (2018)

	Imaginary	Symbolic	Real
Identity	Object	Instance	Impossible process
Identification	Process	Object	Impossible instance
Identitary	Instance	Process	Impossible object (object a)

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Mapping of three jouissances (2020)

	Imaginary	Symbolic	Real
Genital jouissance	object	instance	impossible process
Jouissance of the Other	process	object	impossible instance
Phallic jouissance	instance	process	impossible object

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Proposed reading of the formulas of sexuation (2021)

Addition of a lozenge between the S and the object a (published in Frères d’âmes ou La Communauté dépassée).

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Borromean mapping of sex, gender, object a; of identification, identity and the identitarian; as well as three jouissances, on the knot (dextrogyre) (2021)

The article corresponding to these latest propositions will be published in the fall, “a-sexuation: perversion of the phallic and the function of castration”, September 2021.

Sex, gender, object a, function of castration

 

With three jouissances

 

With identification, the identitary, and identity

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Course of the treatment (starting from gender), in a three-dimensional perspective (2021)

1. First movement — S/R: from supposed knowledge to the unconscious real
2. Second movement — R/I: from the real unconscious to the specular imaginary
3. Third movement — I/S: from the non-specular imaginary to supposed knowledge