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A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyses the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterised by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of essentiality and normativity.
List of contents
1.Preface 2. A note about my method: subjective topology 3. Some considerations of the changing of psychoanalytic terminology 4. On constructing a psychoanalytic lexicon 5. Starting points: sex and nomination 5. Names-of-the-father: a first approach 6. : one sex 7. Psychoanalytic invariance 8. Some preliminary remarks regarding nomination 9. Maternal investment 10. Symbolic nomination and redoubling 11. The link between speech and nomination 13. The difficulty of interpretation 14. Signifiers 'man', 'woman': semblant of body 15. The psychoanalytical group 16. The discourse of the hysteric and jouissance 17. All-phallic space/non-all phallic space 18. Letters and body 19. Signifier and symptom 20. Mark in signifier 21. Sexual difference: a radical alternative 22. Return to a remark in signifier 23. Formations of voice 24. Fourth consistency 25. Assumption of nomination 26. A return to our psychoanalytical lexicon
About the author
Jennifer Yusin is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Philadelphia, Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy and Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Drexel University, USA.
Summary
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyses the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterised by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of essentiality and normativity.
