Abstract:
Based on formulations by Birman & Hoffmann, Claude Allouch and Geneviève Morel, the first part of this paper attempts to highlight the importance of continuing, in the psychoanalytic field, the true interlocution Lacan established with Foucault, now establishing an interlocution between Lacan’s sexuation theory and the practices and theories coming from the queer movement. In the second part, the paper will approach Foucault’s Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite and Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie, indicating some similarities and differences between the disciplinary and “pharmapornographic” regimes theorized by both authors, as well as between the two modalities for resistance they bring forth.
Keywords:
sex; gender; sexuation; psychoanalysis; queer theory