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Woman does not exist. A love letter
Woman does not exist. A love letter

Author(s): Cristian Bodea
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Psychology, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, General Reference Works, Special Branches of Philosophy, Cultural Essay, Source Material
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: Lacanian psychoanalysis; formula of sexuation; man; woman; the hysteric subject;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I would like to develop the idea that there is a very clear distinction to be made between hysteria, on the one hand, and what psychoanalysis calls the feminine position, on the other hand. It is to the logic of the not whole that this feminine position corresponds, a logic that the hysteric subject contests at his/her turn. In this regard, hysteria is more close to a position attributed to men. What remains to be shown, in what follows, is what position the woman is in. If she does not exist, as the title of my paper suggests, then where is she?

  • Issue Year: IX/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 51-68
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English