Transsexuality Sexation

Transsexuality and Sexuation

Elisabeth da Rocha Miranda

The neurotic is not certain about his sexual identification. I don’t mean that they hesitate when fa…

The neurotic is not certain about his sexual identification. I don’t mean that they hesitate when faced with the Other’s question; man or woman, but rather that the subject presents himself with concerns about what it means to be a man and a woman. We often hear complaints like: I’m a woman, but I don’t know what to do with it. What is expected of a woman? What does it mean to be a real man? Am I up to being a real man? Legitimate questions insofar as the phallic meaning only gives us the impression of being a man or a woman . It is about semblant, we are semblances and in this way we veil the reality of sex, the reality of jouissance.

Psychosis is a structure that frequently appears in transsexuals, where the pull towards women advoc…

Psychosis is a structure that frequently appears in transsexuals, where the pull towards women advocated by Lacan is observed. According to some authors, including Catherine Millot, in the psychotic structure, transsexuality can function as a substitute for the foreclosure of the significant Name-of-the-Father, maintaining the stability of the subject . This is what a transsexual who worked as a hairdresser says: “As a teenager, my adoptive parents hospitalized me twice; After I got breasts and came out as I am, a woman, I calmed down. Many of my friends who underwent surgery freaked out and that scares me, I’m not going to take any chances, I’d freak out and lose my man”

Psychotic subjects who present the delusion of transsexuality can benefit from sex change surgery by…

Psychotic subjects who present the delusion of transsexuality can benefit from sex change surgery by finding stabilization there , as in the case of the hairdresser, but this is not a rule, as the surgery can also trigger a psychotic episode. It is worth remembering that transsexuality is not an elementary phenomenon of psychosis, and can appear in any structure.

The hysterical question am I a man or am I a woman? It does not involve the inadequacy between gende…

The hysterical question am I a man or am I a woman? It does not involve the inadequacy between gender and body. The hysterical body is the place where the subject’s sexual life is represented, denouncing their symptom. Hysterics play men and vice versa without the need for changes in biological sex.

“I was always a boy who had difficulty being accepted in groups. I love football, but I never manage…

“I was always a boy who had difficulty being accepted in groups. I love football, but I never managed to belong to a team or have a group, or they didn’t call me or they excluded me because I didn’t look like a boy.” His tragedy — as he refers to the fact of being born in the wrong body — became unbearable in his teens. “I didn’t suffer so much for not dating girls, because many didn’t date either; The worst part was the shame of menstruating, of having breasts that I hid with all my might. I never went to the beach or pool again. I lived hiding from myself because my body caused me anger and horror . I took hormones and got rid of the bleeding and now I want to get rid of these breasts.” He says he doesn’t need genital-transformation surgery, he doesn’t need a penis and neither does his partner.

Considering that the body is sculpted by language and inhabited by an unconscious subject, when one …

Considering that the body is sculpted by language and inhabited by an unconscious subject, when one says I have a body, it is said because language is what gives that body . It is a marked body, erogenized by the other that transmits language. The human baby is born as a result of neurological prematureness that has its effects a posteriori, and the symbol, as an order of language, precedes it, so the first subjectification of the human being occurs through the bias of the body image.

The body presents itself as flesh to be signified by the Other of language, to become a deserted bod…

The body presents itself as flesh to be signified by the Other of language, to become a deserted body of jouissance, a body as loss. From then on, the real exists outside: the symbolic — the place of the Other, the treasure of signifiers and lack — is also there a priori; It is in the imaginary, from the symbolic and the real, that the subject sees himself, for the first time, as a sketch of the Self .

This small difference is precisely what is refused or claimed in transsexuality, and to solve the pr…

This small difference is precisely what is refused or claimed in transsexuality, and to solve the problem these subjects resort to surgery and endocrinology. Tragic mistake in the sense that of the small difference what matters are its consequences, that is, the identifications, the proofs, the “experiencing”, the living the experience of this small difference . The issue is not transsexuality, but how to approach it surgically. Defining sex and gender or adapting one to the other does not guarantee consistency for the modes of jouissance , for what is done in bed, nor for the certainty of being in the feminine or masculine position; In the field of “sexual identification” what dominates is hesitation, the question.

An organ is an instrument only through that on which every instrument is based: it is a signifier. I…

An organ is an instrument only through that on which every instrument is based: it is a signifier. It is as a signifier that transsexuals no longer want it, and not as an organ. That they suffer from an error, which is precisely the common error. The transsexual’s passion is the madness of wanting to get rid of this error, the common error that does not see that the signifier is jouissance and that the phallus is just the signified. There is only one error, which is wanting to force sexual discourse through surgery, which, insofar as it is impossible, is the passage through the real”

Let us consider three proposals for elaborating the psychoanalytic theory of the difference between …

Let us consider three proposals for elaborating the psychoanalytic theory of the difference between the sexes: the first proposal is from Freud, when he marks the difference between having and not having — castrated/not castrated; the second is the difference between having and being, postulated by Lacan in the years 1958-1960; and the third is the difference that Lacan introduces with the logic of a all phallic jouissance and not-all phallic jouissance.

If the reality of the unconscious is sexual reality, not all sexual reality passes through the signi…

If the reality of the unconscious is sexual reality, not all sexual reality passes through the signifier. Thus, in 1958 Lacan maintains that if everything analyzable is sexual, not everything sexual is analyzable; that is, there is a real of sexuality that does not pass through the symbolic, that is traumatic and remains in the register of the real, escaping both the question of gender and sex, but that, however, is marked by thejouissance in the real of the body/flesh and which, regardless of physical form, determines a form of jouissance.

Lacan proposes the field of jouissance and uses the term sexuation, taken from biology, to emphasize…

Lacan proposes the field of jouissance and uses the term sexuation, taken from biology, to emphasize the process dimension of this sexual function. Sexuation for Lacan is the specificity of the subject’s relations with jouissance.

Transsexuals whose structure is psychotic, that there is the exclusion of the significant Father’s n…

Transsexuals whose structure is psychotic, that thereis the exclusion of the significant Father’s name, would be outside the division of sexes. In neurosis, the certainty of being a man or a woman is assured by fantasy, and the transsexual subject or not, will be either on the left side of the sexuation formulas, on the side of a phallic, masculine jouissance; or on the right side not-all phallic, feminine. These positions do not concern gender, but the sexual position of a subject, the position of jouissance. Therefore, nothing prevents a subject of male anatomical sex, of equally masculine gender, from experiencing female jouissance and placing himself in the female position. Why, then, the transsexual issue of swapped bodies, if access to female and male positions is open to everyone and regardless of anatomical shape? Transsexuality can be a phenomenon in psychosis, but also a symptom in neurosis.

For every speaking being, sexuality is denaturalized and results in discomfort and a certain inadequ…

For every speaking being, sexuality is denaturalized and results in discomfort and a certain inadequacy; and when it is radical, as in the case of transsexuality, it is necessary to listen to the subject and not just accept the phenomenon or symptom in order to resolve it surgically.

The horror of the penis , which some psychotic and neurotic transsexual subjects reveal and which is…

The horror of the penis , which some psychotic and neurotic transsexual subjects reveal and which is, in fact, a horror of the erection, a form of male jouissance, the presentation of desire in males. The image of the erect virile organ reveals an unbearable reality for some subjects, which in the case of psychosis is not symbolized. Some male-to-female transsexuals claim that they do not need penis ablation; hormone treatment is enough to prevent them from having an erection.

Freud and Simone De Beauvoir say that you are not born a woman, you become a woman, but you are not …

Freud and Simone De Beauvoir say that you are not born a woman, you become a woman, but you are not born a man either, you have to construct, through your appearance, an appearance of being a man or a woman.

There is no basic sexual identity; masculine or feminine attributes will be added to the lack, divided subject, but no attribute will provide a sexual identity. Identity is constructed, it is “the crystallization of identifications” (11/16/1976), of fixations of jouissance, of the insertion of castration; of its denial or its radical refusal. Around the significant phallus there is the construction of semblances of having or being; and transsexuals make an appearance of being a woman or a man to hide what they are, knowing that they are not, they would be the appearance par excellence.

It is not a question, for psychotic or neurotic subjects and transsexuals, of the certainty of feeli…

It is not a question, for psychotic or neurotic subjects and transsexuals, of the certainty of feeling like a man or a woman in an exchanged body; that the remedy for the discomfort of transsexuality would be surgery and endocrinology. No transsexuality without the surgeon and the endocrinologist. The subject’s desire is abolished in favor of the position of object of the jouissance of the Other of science. These subjects believe that transformed people would be able to abolish the discomfort inherent in beings of language, which by definition is inadequate, the result of a subversion of nature.

Psychoanalysis plays an important role in the issue by offering the neurotic subject a listening to …

Psychoanalysis plays an important role in the issue by offering the neurotic subject a listening to their desire and bringing out what they demand when they ask for surgery. In the case of psychotic subjects, the demand itself, the struggle and the wait for transformation can serve as a barrier preventing an outbreak, surgery can also be a substitute, but I’ll say it again: surgery can also trigger psychosis.

The clinicproves that post-surgery treatment does not save transsexuals from castration. If we are …

The clinic proves that post-surgery treatment does not save transsexuals from castration. If we are faced with an operated neurotic, this will not free them from a certain inadequacy imposed by castration , which is symbolic, and presents us with the possibility of a limited and always inadequate jouissance to the extent that it is never what is expected, no matter what form it takes, bodies we inhabit, much less what object we choose. If we are dealing with a psychotic person, surgery also does not symbolically castrate them and prevent the outbreak ; Surgery also does not guarantee body consistency. - Bear a bet on psychoanalysis and language and be careful with surgical interventions.

In this work we discuss the position of transsexuals in contrast to capitalist discourse and science…

In this work we discuss the position of transsexuals in contrast to capitalist discourse and science. In the text, we question the position of the transsexual before the possibility of changing the body, promoted by new surgical techniques and we ask: in a time before this surgical offer were there no transsexual subjects? As Lacan said, offer creates demand, and the result of these interventions, on the one hand, does not free the neurotic subject from castration, which is symbolic and marks a structural inadequacy between body and gender, and on the other, it also does not operate castration for a psychotic subject, although in some cases it can function as a knotted fiction bearing consistency.

The neurotic is not certain about his sexual identification…

The neurotic is not certain about his sexual identification.

Stabilization

Hysterics play men and vice versa without the need for changes in biological sex.

a body that can adapt to the subject’s sexual position

the inadequacy is structural.

tying sex to gender

language is what gives this body

sketch of the self

live the experience of this small difference, modalities of jouissance

If there is no signifier that represents the woman in the unconscious, nor is there the signifier that represents the man, there is only one operator that allows the unconscious to account for sexual difference and that operator is the phallus.

to have and not to have — neutered/not neutered; the second is the difference between having and bei…

to have and not to have — neutered/not neutered; the second is the difference between having and being, postulated by Lacan in the years 1958-1960; and the third is the difference that Lacan introduces with the logic of a all jouissance and the phallic not-all

Inadequacy through castration, does not operate by symbolically castrating him and preventing the outbreak

malaise inherent to the being of speech, which by definition is inadequate

not knowing about sex, there is no knowledge about this sharing, there is a semblance

It is necessary to construct, through appearances, an appearance of being a man or a woman.

For every being of speech, sexuality is denaturalized

Sexuation formulas

Transsexuality can be a phenomenon in psychosis, but also a symptom when we are in neurosis.

Substitute

Surplus Jouissance

Live the experience of this small difference, modalities of jouissance

What does the guy want? (Demand, desire, need) - Analyst’s speech. Neurosis Clinic. Appointment of S…

What does the guy want? (Demand, desire, need) - Analyst’s speech. Neurosis Clinic. Appointment of S1. Possible destinations: partial satisfaction or failure. Falls of ideals. - Fantasy, consistency. - We continue circulating, exchanging, demanding recognition, that the other responds, that the other exchanges, participation, circulation. - In addition to the faces of men and women, what coordinates the movement is object a, the object that causes desire, which demands more jouissance: movement, exchange. Navigation through speeches. - Ways to deal with the strangeness of the body:substitute

Brought into the world , abandonment, helplessness

Surplus Jouissance , Body

Creature future, procreation

How do I maintain myself as an I

Choosing sex: what do they say about it?

Marc Strauss

Symptoms, collective and individual, are intrusions of this non-all that manifests itself in a scene…

Symptoms, collective and individual, are intrusions of this non-all that manifests itself in a scene in which it has nothing to do with.

In effect, neurosis adds to the structural impossibility the refusal to take this into account. As we know, they see an impotence there and are dedicated to remedying it. The neurotic, whatever their anatomical sex, dreams, therefore, with the phallus without fail, they aspires to make One without rest.

The neurotic, therefore, is “hommosexual” . They distinguish men/women whom they recognize, that is,…

The neurotic, therefore, is “hommosexual” . They distinguish men/women whom they recognize, that is, those who can take place in the scenes of their phantasm. In hysteria, the subject places themself at the service of the master-phallus, to reinforce them, displaying before their eyes the rest to be desired that escapes their capture; in obsession, the subject also places themself at the service of the phallus, trying to meticulously conceal a remainder. The neurotic symptom is, therefore, the return of truth in the flaws of “phantom-phallic” knowledge. In fact, “a” is undoubtedly represented in the phantasm, but it is not reduced to it.

But first, a few words about psychosis . It is known that the phallic referent is missing there and …

But first, a few words about psychosis . It is known that the phallic referent is missing there and that, therefore, the chain does not have an ultimate meaning to support it. However, for this chain to be orderly and not pulverized, the psychotic subject must ensure the meaning of the words one by one, without the slightest mistake, which would only send him to the void of the referent. The categories of man and woman can find meaning there in the same way , and the exercise of sexuality can be standardized by the subject’s conception of it, but sexual difference does not serve as the place for the speech pact intended to resolve the issue. sex riddle. Transsexuals illustrate this fact .

If the jouissance of the body infiltrates the construction of the psychotic person, it can only be a…

If the jouissance of the body infiltrates the construction of the psychotic person, it can only be an other, and therefore a persecutor. The psychotic subject lacks the all, but they only share with the feminine position the line that establishes the not-all. They do not have a ground that makes every x that is stated to be Φx; on the contrary, for them no x is Φx. They can, therefore, only support themselves, from their own solitary construction.

Neurosis: causes every x that is stated to be Φx - Psychosis: no x is Φx, every x is x

The neurotic, dedicated to the rescue of their father, of the phallic all, imagines that their failu…

The neurotic, dedicated to the rescue of their father, of the phallic all, imagines that their failure is due to partner’s inadequacy, and reprimands them for it . Or, if they’re sensitive to their division, to its subjective implication, they think that the lack refers to the choice they make in choosing a partner. But, in any case, they bet on sexual intercourse and its effectiveness to define the other sex, in a more precise way than just another. Thus, in neurosis, the field of clinical experiences is essentially that of engaging in the sexual act with its challenge and impossibilities. May we summarize through the dream of identifying through love: not-all jouissance to the jouissance promised by the signifier.

In defense of the neurotic, this lack of knowledge of the structure of the One, always filled with e…

In defense of the neurotic, this lack of knowledge of the structure of the One, always filled with emptiness, is more or less imposed by the discourse that distinguishes the sexes. It is the price to pay for entry into this master’s discourse, which is that of the unconscious insofar as it establishes the hierarchy of the phallus . But the structure, which cannot be forgotten so easily, and the history show that if its unveiling is slow, it never stops being done.

It is Freud who allowed these forgotten speakers to tell themselves, at last, that another opinion e…

It is Freud who allowed these forgotten speakers to tell themselves, at last, that another opinion existed. Freud listened to women as no man had done before. He discovered their castration, which affects all those who speak in its own way, dividing them into men and women, and condemns them to find themselves, or at least to situate themselves in relation to each other, without knowing who they really are. They thus do their best to cooperate in “joining together”, avoiding castration with their own means, but with the same horror.

If there is no sexual relationship, there is a textual relationship, always unexpected…

If there is no sexual relationship, there is a textual relationship, always unexpected.

To return to the choice of sex and clarify it, we can say that it is the choice to treat what the ph…

To return to the choice of sex and clarify it, we can say that it is the choice to treat what the phallic meaning leaves as a remainder to the phantasm. If we call this remainder other jouissance, and make it the index of a feminine position, we can distinguish different choices. Or we accommodate ourselves without getting too bogged down by it; or if it torments us beyond for us to bear, Psychoanalysis is the site to elaborate something else.

Why would some people be more tormented by rest than others, to the point of vomiting or being an ob…

Why would some people be more tormented by rest than others, to the point of vomiting or being an obsession, while others manage to get along with it? We can think that a subject may have been disadvantaged in terms of the means given to them, that they found themselves coerced by an option that was impossible to maintain. We can then imagine helping them to finally close the chapter of their hindrance for the rest and thus opening up the field of the phallus to other fictions.

Up until now we have spoken of the not-all as if it were a threat to the all, structurally inevitabl…

Up until now we have spoken of the not-all as if it were a threat to the all, structurally inevitable, but which can be contained and metaphorized by making it cross the phallic barrier.

In fact, considering all aspects, the neurotic has complete reason to distrust the not-all. Escaping by definition every pact that presupposes a shared meaning, it is and remains fundamentally a threat. Let us take a good look at what the not-all implies as a consequence, which cannot, by definition, refer to any definable meaning. This just means that this not-all:

does not recognize anything or anyone; he does not, therefore, testify to any recognition;…

does not recognize anything or anyone; he does not, therefore, testify to any recognition;

does not respect anything;

is not loyal;

is not predictable;

is not kind. And even, from the point of view of the all, he can be considered as evil, since he hears nothing of our complaints or our pleasures.

If the position that allows you to experience this jouissance is a choice, what could justify it? Ev…

If the position that allows you to experience this jouissance is a choice, what could justify it? Even more so, if there is no representation in the not-all, is there no subject in it? How can a speakingbody abandon the subject, its beloved progeny, that it made itself to be through its representation; especially the price they paid for, the price of castration. In the advantages column, it is true that the subject in this non-complete position is not forced to refer to a given organ, whose functioning, in fact, can prove to be quite random. The not-all side, freed from the chains of the organ, then seems terribly freer than the side that remains attached to supporting the organ through its perfomance. And they have said since Tiresias that the effect obtained would be the measure of this triggering.

Such freedom is certainly somewhat desirable, but it is also necessary to remember that its exercise…

Such freedom is certainly somewhat desirable, but it is also necessary to remember that its exercise will always remain solitary, since, as it is located in the space of the not-all, there is, therefore, no possible interlocutor. There is a price to pay, which can seem quite heavy. But this is not enough to explain the great differences in appetite for the not-all that we observe in the facts, and which are probably destined to remain mysterious, given that they are reluctant to take any direction.

Writing poetry is a way of making sure you are not alone, of making something with the not-all; poet…

Writing poetry is a way of making sure you are not alone, of making something with the not-all; poetry is a metaphor that brings together those who understand it about the fact that love is a pebble laughing under the sun.

Let us add, to conclude, that the recognized mirroring of the gain of meaning involves a responsibil…

Let us add, to conclude, that the recognized mirroring of the gain of meaning involves a responsibility regarding the pleasure that is obtained there. This is what the psychoanalyst remembers who extracts himself from the collective uproar occupied in celebrating the restored statue of meaning. The Psychoanalyst, always a bit of a killjoy, remains alert due to the suspicion they allows to hover over the authenticity of the boasted jubilation. And when people refuse to play the collective game and take their place in the exchange, the analyst can listen to them because it’s true: a choice, whatever it may be, can only be made alone, always, even and, above all, the choice of meaning. And one is only a subject of one’s choice and by one’s choice.

Supported by their reason, these subjects in a rupture with common sense can take the place that awa…

Supported by their reason, these subjects in a rupture with common sense can take the place that awaited them, knowing that it is their choice.

What, then, is the choice of sex for the psychoanalyst? I submit this formula to your consideration: the choice of sex is the choice of the not-all in action, which leaves its place to the Other of sex, finally recognized. An Other without whom we would be nothing.

• Symptoms, collective and individual, are intrusions of this non- all that manifests itself in a scene in which it has nothing to do with.

• Interpretation of the analyst who repositions the subject in his symptom

• The neurotic, therefore, is “hommosexual”

• chain is ordered and not pulverized, psychosis, transsexuality

• If the jouissance of the body infiltrates the construction of the psychotic person, he can only be other, and therefore a persecutor.

• Neurosis: causes every x that is stated to be Φx

• Psychosis: no x is Φx, all x is x

• The neurotic imagines that his failure is due to his partner’s inadequacy, and blames him .the other or himself. for it.

• phallus hierarchy

• cooperate in “joining together”, avoiding castration with the means appropriate to each one, but with the same horror.

• If there is no sexual relationship, there is a textual relationship, always unexpected.

• Not-all x All

• The non- all side, freed from the chains of the organ, then seems terribly freer than the side that remains attached to supporting the organ through its staging.

• Such freedom is certainly somewhat desirable, but it is also necessary to remember that its exercise will always remain solitary.

• And when subjects refuse to play the collective game and take their place in the exchange, he .the Psychoanalyst. can listen to them because he knows what they are right about: the choice, a choice, whatever it may be, can only be made alone. , always, inclusive and, above all, the choice of meaning. And one is only a subject of one’s choice and by one’s choice.

Surplus Jouissance

Body Event Object a, bet on the act Such freedom is, certainly, a little desirable, but it is also necessary to remember that its exercise will always remain solitary

And when subjects refuse to play the collective game and take their place in the exchange, he .the Psychoanalyst. can listen to them because he knows what they are right about: the choice, a choice, whatever it may be, can only be made alone. , always, inclusive and, above all, the choice of meaning. And one is only a subject of one’s choice and by one’s choice.

The insistence of reality on sexuality: different perspectives of psychoanalysis and feminism…

The insistence of reality on sexuality: different perspectives of psychoanalysis and feminism

Maria Luisa de la Oliva

A fiction, an artifice, a small mechanism of deception is needed to be able to support the reality t…

A fiction, an artifice, a small mechanism of deception is needed to be able to support the reality that it covers.

In Greek mythology, it was represented by the sphinx, this type of demon that had the face of a woma…

In Greek mythology, it was represented by the sphinx, this type of demon that had the face of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of a bird. A body made of pieces: half animal, half woman.

How does one sex relate to the Other? Here I take the Other sex as an alterity, as the Other. How do you access the Other’s body? Here, we have to contemplate two dimensions: one is of an ahistorical nature, and the other is of a historical nature. We will see how gender theories, which took performativity as a reference, give a determining weight to the effects of discourse on sexuality and how, from this, they present a subversive possibility through different sexual practices.

The body is not a factual or self-identical material reality; it is a materiality loaded with meanin…

The body is not a factual or self-identical material reality; it is a materiality loaded with meaning (…) and the way of maintaining this meaning is fundamentally dramatic. When I say dramatic, I mean that the body is not simply matter, but a continuous and incessant materialization of possibilities. We are not simply a body, but we make ourselves our own body and, in fact, we make our own body differently from how our contemporaries do and how our predecessors do and how their successors do (BUTLER, 2004). .

Drag shows in the scene that neither identifications nor appearances are enough to say what a man or…

Drag shows in the scene that neither identifications nor appearances are enough to say what a man or a woman is. There is a non-all there, a flaw.

Lacan establishes that thought is an entanglement with the imaginary. He says that if man did not have a body, not only would he not think but he would also not be deeply captured by the image of that body. In other words, there is a glue, a knot, we could say, between thought and the body. There is a capture by the body image. In these years, Lacan translated the register of the imaginary into the body. Man “embodies his world, he makes itin the image of his body, and he has no idea what happens in that body”

Furthermore, he adds that this body will acquire its value through the gaze and that most of what ma…

Furthermore, he adds that this body will acquire its value through the gaze and that most of what man thinks is rooted there. So, we have an entanglement between thought and the body, and, at the same time, this body needs the look to acquire libidinal weight. It makes this body a desiring body, something different from an organismic body. It is the libido that is transferred in the gaze that makes S1 fixate, naming my body as one, validating that this image that the mirror gives me back, effectively, is what my body will be. That is, for the constitution of the body, the intervention of the Other is necessary and, concomitantly, a certain predisposition to accept this aspiration of the Other.

An analysis carried out to its end allows us to cross the phantasm , which means having gone far eno…

An analysis carried out to its end allows us to cross the phantasm , which means having gone far enough to verify and verify that the object used by the phantasm is a buffer to the real. A wild card. Knowing this and taking a stand in the face of it makes it pop out like a buffer and the subject confronts the three impossible things: there is no Other of the Other, there is no metalanguage and there is no sexual relationship.

Impossible of meaning, significance and sex. This implies an approach to the fact that the phallus d…

Impossible of meaning, significance and sex. This implies an approach to the fact that the phallus does not say everything about sex. The man will be able to enjoy more peacefully because he will no longer be so inclined to obtain the response to his being as a man with the phallus, admitting that it is nothing more than a semblance, which allows him to approach the heterosexual of the Other sex. Furthermore, he notes that what he has as an organ is not the phallus, but what sometimes acts as a substitute. The phallus is always outside, as a sign of that which always escapes language and language, when it comes to capturing the thing in itself, the Real, and this as a universal that governs both.

As for the woman, she will discover that the abandonment of her phallic quarrel, whether through the…

As for the woman, she will discover that the abandonment of her phallic quarrel, whether through the phallic demand for a distributive justice of the sexes, or through the denial of the difference between the sexes, the abandonment of her question about what it is to be a woman — as if there was an essence to be discovered that would give it a definitive answer — the letting go of hope and the belief that the solution is in the phallus and the acceptance that there is something of jouissance in it that unfolds within itself . All of this can allow you a different access to your sexuality, freer, less burdened with the phallus.

• A fiction, an artifice, a small mechanism of deception is needed to be able to support the reality that it covers.

• A body made of pieces: half animal, half woman.

• The body is a materiality loaded with meaning

• Drag shows in the scene that neither identifications nor appearances are enough to say what a man or a woman is. There is a non- all there, a flaw.

• this body will acquire its value through the gaze

• there is no Other of the Other, there is no metalanguage and there is no sexual relationship.

• Impossible of meaning, significance and sex.

• there is something about the jouissance that unfolds within itself

Surplus Jouissance

Helplessness: there is no Other of the Other, there is no metalanguage and there is no sexual relationship. This body will acquire its value through the gaze

New sexual economy

Colette Soler

Who feels like they are making a choice? Not even transsexual people, who certainly affirm a sex opp…

Who feels like they are making a choice? Not even transsexual people, who certainly affirm a sex opposite to all the verdicts of anatomy and marital status, but who do not pretend to have chosen it, but, on the contrary, to have been chosen from the beginning and against their will for that reason. invisible sexual identity. If “trans” people, as they say, show anything, it is only that the subjective feeling of sexual identity can be separated from both organic and cultural data, and that, therefore, there is a junction between them in which the all question is knowing how it produces itself.

Today it is possible to fix it with hormones and surgery, but this is just a “bricolage” that proves…

Today it is possible to fix it with hormones and surgery, but this is just a “bricolage” that proves, on the contrary, that the organism is imposed on us as a real thing. Now, anatomy, the index of this biological reality, is the tying point of all historical discourses about sex, couples, reproduction and, more generally, the social order.

Which choice? I can choose, with the exception that I do not have the choice not to choose, and with each option including a loss, I also have no choice regarding the loss.

If we speak, then, of a subject of the act, it is not the subject represented by a signifier, but by…

If we speak, then, of a subject of the act, it is not the subject represented by a signifier, but by that which is not subject in it, by that which divides it, by that which causes it, the object a .

Who did he place on the side of the phallic all ? Men, hetero or homo, as the identity of jouissance…

Who did he place on the side of the phallic all ? Men, hetero or homo, as the identity of jouissance does not decide the partner; friends of Greek philia, hysterical men or women, the phallophilia of Montherlant in “Television”, and of mystics like Angelus Silesius. Angelus is placed by Lacan in the phallic all because between him and his god there is the object gaze. This thesis about Angelus can be fair or false, it doesn’t matter; it indicates that according to Lacan, when the object a comes between the subject and his partner, he is on the side of the phallic all.

That the hetero act is not necessary is clearly evident in this series of the homo man, but also for…

That the hetero act is not necessary is clearly evident in this series of the homo man, but also for the Greek “friends” and the hysterical woman who choose love rather than carnal, ethical jouissance. Outside-sex, with a capital letter, says Lacan, also evident in Montherlant’s celibate ethics; As for Angelus, his constrictions with God, as they are limited by the structure of the phantasm, clearly do not involve the sexual act.

On the side of the heteros or hetera which is the not-all , Lacan places psychotics, women, mystics …

On the side of the heteros or hetera which is the not-all , Lacan places psychotics, women, mystics whose matheme could be written in contrast with that of Angelus Silesius, . We would thus understandthat whatever the intensity of the erotic vibrations of mystical texts, Lacan states very strongly that they are not fuck stories [histoires de foutre]. And if the fuck [foutrerie] that passes through the organ is distinguished, as Lacan puts it in his “Italian Note”, from the fuckery [fouterie] which, in turn, passes in the ancient sense of the term through the articulation of language, we could perhaps say that if it’s about fucking in search of the barred A. In any case, mystics , whatever side they are on, are the most exacerbated example of the disjunction between the sexual option of the all or the non-all and the practice of bodies itself.

The object that causes desire can push towards the Other, the active object, but it is not enough to…

The object that causes desire can push towards the Other, the active object, but it is not enough to ensure jouissance, as we know well. The gap between desire and jouissance, repeats Lacan. What then decides this jouissance that one takes for the body of the Other, where it comes from? This is exactly the question at the beginning of Lacan’s Seminar 20: Even more. The desire that the symbolic determines is not enough there, nor are the secondary sexual characteristics of the image of the Other’s body? The Mais seminar still leaves the question suspended, but it continues beyond it. Lacan advances there step by step, and ends up answering for the… symptom, fixation of jouissance. It is a “body event” .

With him, there is no choice. The bodily event is like trauma: it bursts, contingent and singular. H…

With him, there is no choice. The bodily event is like trauma: it bursts, contingent and singular. However, this determines his own being, his “self” which is not a subject represented by a signifier. They authorize themselves, therefore, meaning that between sexuality as an activity and what we call subjectivity with everything that is represented in speech, there is a gap. In certain cases, a weld between what belongs to the subject — that is, love, desire and the phantasm — and what belongs to the body of jouissance disguises the gap; in others, it is perfectly noticeable, eventually tormenting the subject who cannot do anything with it. Is the bodily event something of the real, not the real of the impossible, of the tique?

A last word about the extent of what one can choose, then. Choice between the all and the phallic no…

A last word about the extent of what one can choose, then. Choice between the all and the phallic not-all , but forced choice: between these two sides the speaker has no choice not to choose. With regard to bodily activity, “they authorize themselves” means that it is the bodily event that decides , in other words, precisely what the subject did not choose, which was imposed on him, even in the case of hetero sexuality, as it itself is a symptom, as Lacan formulated. They authorize themselves, but from a self that they, the subjects, did not choose. And this explains the fact that no one feels like they are making a choice in matters of sexuality.

We see, therefore, what the two walls of sexual coercion are: that of the structure of language and …

We see, therefore, what the two walls of sexual coercion are: that of the structure of language and discourse that are valid for everyone, and the other, very different, of the reality of contingencies that are fixed one byone, and that preside over the “there is one” [ya de l’Un] of the symptom, which makes the unconscious pass into the real. The path from the father to the worst of 1971 translates, in 1975, from the father to the symptom. And deep down, the question is whether today’s psychoanalysis will continue to do what Lacan diagnosed in “Television”, namely, duplicating “the curse of sex”. It doubles it when, in the absence of a fair assessment of the real data that I have just mentioned, it places the responsibility on the subjects for what they are not responsible for, because, faced with the reality of the symptom, they are left with only one choice — which is quite significant, in fact. —, the ethical choice of looking at it head on or not, perhaps of identifying with it.

• Who feels like they are making a choice?

• Which choice? I can choose, with the exception that I do not have the choice not to choose, and with each option including a loss, I also have no choice regarding the loss.

• Object a, bet on the act

• All phallic

• Straight act

• Not-all

• Body Event

• It is the bodily event that decides

• faced with the reality of the symptom, they are left with only one choice — which is quite significant, in fact —, the ethical choice of looking at it head on or not, perhaps of identifying with it.

Surplus Jouissance

Event of Body Object a, bet on the act

Advances in medicine and surgical technique and endocrinological studies allow us to ask: before the…

Advances in medicine and surgical technique and endocrinological studies allow us to ask: before these advances were there no transsexuals? Have they been able to achieve sexual orgasm with the genitalia they were born with? Did the hatred of the virile organ, the penis, and its existence prevent these subjects from feeling like women beyond the shape of their bodies? Did the presence of breasts prevent biological women from feeling like men? What does it mean to bea woman? Or a man? To what extent does capitalist discourse, contaminating science, promise a body that can adapt to the subject’s sexual position , if such adaptation is possible?

Supply creates demand, and capitalist discourse is voracious in its fury to promote science that eve…

Supply creates demand, and capitalist discourse is voracious in its fury to promote science that every year gives rise to new techniques for more and more surgeries, offering modernity a circus of horrors, cruel in promising an impossible ideal. In this sense, we remember that plastic surgeries, so welcome when it comes to repair and even aesthetics, go beyond their limits, carrying out — since supply creates demand — an endless rejuvenation, proposing the eternalization of the beautiful shape.

Currently, even the female genitalia is the target of cosmetic surgery, as it is always possible to …

Currently, even the female genitalia is the target of cosmetic surgery, as it is always possible to leave it with more turgor and more… I don’t know what. Therefore, the use of surgeries also in the case of transsexuality must be embraced within the limits of the discourse that bars the jouissance of anything possible. The discourse of capitalism that governs everything is possible is the discourse that tries to nullify the barrier of castration by imposing the imperative of jouissance that takes place as an imperative of consumption of objects that are produced on the market. Surgeries without bar are consumed and consume subjects who start to think that with the change of anatomical sex they will become men or women “as they should be”, when we know with Freud that the inadequacy is structural .

If the clinic with transsexuals points to the radical lack of adequacy between sex and gender, parad…

If the clinic with transsexuals points to the radical lack of adequacy between sex and gender, paradoxically the push for surgeries makes transsexuality the way to tie sex to gender , that is, the male X female anatomy with the social construction of the male X feminine in accordance with the norms and ideas of society.

At this point, I return to what Lacan in his seminar “… ou pire…” calls a “common error”. Lacan …

At this point, I return to what Lacan in his seminar “… ou pire…” calls a “common error”. Lacan says that “[…] to access the other sex it is necessary to pay the price, that of the small difference, which passes deceptively to the Real, through the intermediary of the organ, precisely when it stops being taken as such, and, at the same time, it reveals what it means to be an organ.

Error in common discourse, in the dominant discourse on sexuality that confuses the organ with the f…

Error in common discourse, in the dominant discourse on sexuality that confuses the organ with the function. The phallus is the signifier that gives meaning, but jouissance is of the order of the letter, the mark that carries the sexual reality. The so-called treatments through surgery and hormones speak of a certain medical omnipotence that thinks it can adapt the body to gender and correct an error of nature. Precisely in the field of sexuality, where all determination is essentially denaturalized, let us remember Freud in 1905 in his “Three Essays on Sexuality”. Belonging to one sex is a significant issue. If there is no signifier that represents the woman in the unconscious, nor is there the signifier that represents the man, there is only one operator that allows the unconscious to account for sexual difference and that operator is the phallus.

The sexuation formulas are the formulas for sexual identifications. In current times there is an exa…

The sexuation formulas are the formulas for sexual identifications. In current times there is an exacerbation of transism that is confirmed by Queer theory, among others. These movements propose a sexual conception that makes the gender/sex relationship something that can be changedlike changing clothes. Is the origin of these theories an opposition to the predominant heterosexual norm and male domination? The straight norm and male domination have always felt threatened by the feminine, which is why it escapes the phallic norm.

If, as many neurotic and transsexual subjects claim, they know that they are not women and also do n…

If, as many neurotic and transsexual subjects claim, they know that they are not women and also do not feel like men, would they be outside the sharing, neither on the man nor on the woman side in the attempt to make a third sex exist?

There is no prior knowledge about sexuality. If there is a sharing of the sexes, and the knowledge that is involved in the unconscious is not knowing about sex, there is no knowing about this sharing, there is semblant . If, on the one hand, the real of sex escapes knowledge, on the other hand there is a knowing how to do with this real through the semblance of being a man or a woman.