By Leticia Glocer Fiorini
Leticia Glocer Fiorini explores the impasses of binary notion and of the essentialist conceptions of girls and the female. during this trajectory, the author’s ongoing discussion with Freud is attached with one element of his state of mind: multicentered and complicated.
The textual content addresses questions with regards to love, sexual wish, maternity, attractiveness and the passing of time and highlights present debates pertaining to ladies, the female, and sexual distinction in addition to a few arguable subject matters which have been mentioned through the historical past of the psychoanalytic circulation. probably the most proper matters is the suggestion of female enigma and the conceptions of the female because the destructive of the masculine, this means that going into the nature-nurture debate, in addition to into issues of the female obvious because the different of the masculine. the writer issues out that the inspiration of female enigma is a displacement of the enigmas inherent to the origins, to the finite time of lifestyles (the inevitability of loss of life) and to sexual distinction. the elemental false impression stemming from this enigmatic situation is an equation of the female to otherness.
This textual content is the results of a line of labor that the writer has been constructing for numerous years, in keeping with her psychoanalytic education and perform in addition to on her analyzing and pursuits when it comes to ladies and the female in different fields: philosophy, epistemology, anthropology and heritage. it's a part of her curiosity within the modes of notion underlying conceptualizations on ladies in psychoanalysis. Advances within the relation among psychoanalysis and the female contain contemplating the advanced kinfolk round the query of sexual distinction and the continually not easy building of sexual id.
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In these conceptualizations, phallic organization is exceeded or questioned by the feminine as the incarnation of the different, as what perturbs the “norm”. For his part, Lacan proposes a supplementary jouissance in women—opposed to any signifying programming—and recognizes femininity beyond the phallic order. 4 Although this concept can be interpreted in the frame of what is beyond the signifying field but also includes it, the accent is placed on exclusion from discourse, so that this creates a new dark continent: women know nothing about it, nor can they talk about it, as in the case of mystical jouissance.
On the contrary, the complex process being configured depends on the parents’ symbolicdesiring system and its relation to the individual and cultural mythologies concerning the sexes, which are expressed in discourse. Thus the newborn is assigned a masculine or feminine identity through a name, a certain gaze, distinctive discourse, differential opening up of the erogenous zones (emphasizing Freud’s concept of the mother as the initial seducer), all of which will develop different and divergent expectations for girls and boys (Goldstein, 1983; 18 THE FEMININE POSITION 122 2 3 4 5 6 7222 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5222 6 7 8 9 20 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 922 19 McDougall, 1987).
All these levels are articulated, but as we have seen, articulation does not imply symmetry between the sexes. I consider that this discussion leaves open the question as to whether there is one symbolic law or a network of laws in the frame of processes which produce subjectivity. We also need to examine in greater depth the core of symbolization inherent in the pre-oedipal phase. About an additional psychic violence For Aulagnier (1975), the mother’s identifying enunciations anticipate the child’s capacity to understand their meaning.