The question “What is a woman?” and the logic of exception on which a hysterical woman bases herself in her relationship with femininity reveal one of her beliefs: that the bar placed by Lacan on Woman does not exist. The distinction between this logic and the feminine logic of the “not-whole” is the opportunity to once again place beliefs on femininity within psychoanalytic theory and to question the paradoxical uses of “feminine” and “masculine” positions.
Femininity; hysteria; not-whole; sexuation formulas