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What Can We Know About Sex? - A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

English · Hardback

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What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan's work allows us to make new links between the sexual laws of discourse, gender and what Freud called the "biological rock" in human life, allowing a new perspective not only on the history of the sexual couple but on contemporary developments of sexuality in the twenty-first century.


List of contents










1. The Universe of Sexual Laws 2. The Experience of the Sexual Relation 3. Deconstruction of the Sexual Law 4. The Veiling of Non-Conjunction 5. Organisation of the Symbolic Order 6. How the Sexuated Logics May be Knotted together 7. Redistribution of Jouissances


About the author










Gisèle Chaboudez, a medical doctor and psychiatrist, trained with Jacques Lacan until 1981, and is now a psychoanalyst in private practice in Paris. Author of several acclaimed books, she is Vice President of the Espace Analytique group and editor of the journal Figures de la Psychanalyse.


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What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan’s work allows us to make new links between the sexual laws of discourse, gender and what Freud called the "biological rock" in human life, allowing a new perspective not only on the history of the sexual couple but on contemporary developments of sexuality in the twenty-first century.

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