Gender, sexuality and the theory of seduction

Women: A Cultural Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 95-108

  Fletcher, John ^a  

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Author keywords

Castration; Gender; Laplanche; Phallus; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923313790     PISSN: 09574042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09574040050051451     Document Type: Article

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27. Kaja Silverman has shown how certain texts of Lacan's, such as The Four Fundamental Concepts (1964-5), allow for an entry into language and symbolization together with the constitution of the unconscious through primal repression, without reference to the Oedipus and castration complexes. However the dominant Lacanian account is an implicitly normative one. It conflates the two moments of the formation of the unconscious (primal repression) and the Oedipus/castration (secondary repression) as in the description of psychosis as the result of foreclosure of the Name of the Father and the refusal of castration. The result can be summarized as 'no representation without castration' with the resulting impasse for the theory of sexuality that Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose have outlined
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