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In defense of Other psychoanalysis: on the real in at issue in transsexual solutions1 1 This article is the result of a postdoctoral research made by Rogério Paes Henriques at the Fluminense Federal University under the supervision of Paulo Vidal, financed by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Abstract

The logic of sexuation, by Jacques Lacan, is presented in opposition to the notion of gender, constructed as the matrix for transsexuality intelligibility. The Lacanian approach of sinthome is developed as an alternative to think on singular solutions for sexual impasses, through the depathologization bias. It is concluded that transsexuality, instead of an inescapable psychotic forcing, may be an inventive solution coordinated to the clinic of the sinthome.

Keywords:
transsexualism; psychoanalysis; Jacques Lacan

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