La contradicción del falo: “Hipótesis sobre morfología corporal desde el psicoanálisis”. / The contradiction of the phallus: “Hypothesis on body morphology from psychoanalysis”.

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (07) ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Claudio Reyes Lozano

Se ha cometido una doble injusticia, la primera es la aversión teórica de la academia sobre la inclusión y transmisión de discursos críticos respecto al género; la segunda es la aversión de algunos teóricos en incluir al psicoanálisis como una salida a embrollos políticos respecto del género. El problema se encuentra en un concepto fundamental y controversial de la teoría analítica: el falo. Esto no se debe a una mala lectura de analistas o pensadores de género; la contradicción del falo la hallamos en los textos freudianos y lacanianos: estos van desde el extremo hetero-normativo hasta la emergencia de una elección sexual totalmente alejada a esta (y no por eso patológica). Hay en las confusiones de Freud y Lacan una posibilidad de establecer nuevamente al psicoanálisis como respuesta política a las disputas de género: la invención de nuevas morfologías corporales y topologías de placer. A double injustice has been committed, the first is the theoretical aversion by the academy about the inclusion and transmission of critical discourses related to gender; the second is the aversion of some theorists to include psychoanalysis to resolve political struggles about gender. The problem is in a controversial and fundamental concept of psychoanalytic theory: the phallus. This is not due to a misreading of gender thinkers or psychoanalysts thinkers; the contradiction of the phallus is found in the same Freudian and Lacanian texts: these start from the hetero-normative extreme till the possibility of the emergence of a sexual choice totally away from it (and not necessarily pathological). In the confusions of freudian-lacanian text there is a possibility to set back to psychoanalysis as a possible political response to gender disputes: the invention of new morphologies and topologies of body pleasure.

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 642-642
Author(s):  
Paul L. Wachtel

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-223
Author(s):  
Linda S. Penn

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 397-398
Author(s):  
Richard E. Geha

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 824-824
Author(s):  
Allen E. Willner

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 614-614
Author(s):  
Seymour Fisher

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (188) ◽  
pp. 487-494
Author(s):  
Daniel Mullis

In recent years, political and social conditions have changed dramatically. Many analyses help to capture these dynamics. However, they produce political pessimism: on the one hand there is the image of regression and on the other, a direct link is made between socio-economic decline and the rise of the far-right. To counter these aspects, this article argues that current political events are to be understood less as ‘regression’ but rather as a moment of movement and the return of deep political struggles. Referring to Jacques Ranciere’s political thought, the current conditions can be captured as the ‘end of post-democracy’. This approach changes the perspective on current social dynamics in a productive way. It allows for an emphasis on movement and the recognition of the windows of opportunity for emancipatory struggles.


Derrida Today ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Morris

Over the past thirty years, academic debate over pornography in the discourses of feminism and cultural studies has foundered on questions of the performative and of the word's definition. In the polylogue of Droit de regards, pornography is defined as la mise en vente that is taking place in the act of exegesis in progress. (Wills's idiomatic English translation includes an ‘it’ that is absent in the French original). The definition in Droit de regards alludes to the word's etymology (writing by or about prostitutes) but leaves the referent of the ‘sale’ suspended. Pornography as la mise en vente boldly restates the necessary iterability of the sign and anticipates two of Derrida's late arguments: that there is no ‘the’ body and that performatives may be powerless. Deriving a definition of pornography from a truncated etymology exemplifies the prosthesis of origin and challenges other critical discourses to explain how pornography can be understood as anything more than ‘putting (it) up for sale’.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101
Author(s):  
Aaron Lahl ◽  
Patrick Henze

The Swiss psychoanalyst Fritz Morgenthaler (1919–84) is well known in German-speaking psychoanalysis as an early exponent of Heinz Kohut's self psychology, as an ethnopsychoanalytic researcher and as an original thinker on the topics of dreams, psychoanalytic technique and especially on sexuality (perversions, heterosexuality, homosexuality). In 1980, he presented the first psychoanalytic conception of homosexuality in the German-speaking world that did not view homosexuality in terms of deviance or pathology. His theory of ‘junction points’ ( Weichenstellungen) postulates three decisive moments in the development of homosexuality: a prioritized cathexis of autoeroticism in narcissistic development, a Janus-facedness of homosexual desire as an outcome of the Oedipal complex and the coming out in puberty. According to Morgenthaler, this development can result in non-neurotic or neurotic homosexuality. Less known than the theory of junction points and to some degree even concealed by himself (his earlier texts appeared later on in corrected versions) are Morgenthaler's pre-1980 accounts of homosexuality which deserve to be called homophobic. Starting with a discussion of this early work, the article outlines Morgenthaler's theoretical development with special focus on his theory of junction points and how this theory was taken up in psychoanalytic theory.


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