Abstract:
This paper examines the criticism that the Lacanian theoretical developments about sexual difference would have taken place under the regency of the dynamics that regulate the gender binarism. We intend to show that the theory of sexuation, through the resources of numbers and logical subversions proposed, aims to formalize the aphorism “there is no sexual relation”, deduced from incompatible phallic regencies and modalities of jouissance. In this way, Lacan would not have assumed the operation of opposing binary terms, male/female, but instead turned to the obstacle between them, diverging from the dichotomous mechanics that keep the heterosexual norm.
Keywords:
gender binarism; Lacanian psychoanalysis; sexuation; difference between the sexes
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