Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation: Exploring Logical Consistency and Clinical Consequences

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Guy Le Gaufey Cormac Gallagher

Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation

Exploring Logical Consistency and Clinical Consequences

Guy Le Gaufey, Cormac Gallagher

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Routledge
04 December 2019

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan’s formulae of sexuation, examining both their logical consistency and clinical consequences. Are there two different entities named Man and Woman, separated by the gulf of sexual difference? Or is it better to conceive of this difference as something purely relative, each human being situated on a sort of continuum from more or less 'man' to more or less 'woman'?

Sigmund Freud established the strange way through which sexuality determines being human: his concept of drive was no longer the heteronormative sexual instinct used by the psychiatrists of his time. With his provocative formula according to which 'there is no sexual relationship', Lacan has reinforced this perspective, combining logic and sexuality through the invention of a new operator, the concept 'not all', which points to a form of incompleteness at stake in his 'formulae of sexuation'. This book examines how these formulae have been constructed, and how we should read them in connection with, on one hand, their own logical consistency (a logical square different from Aristotelian tradition) and, on the other hand, a 'part object' in a very different sense to Melanie Klein’s. The book also investigates the underlying logic of clinical vignettes, so much in favour in psychoanalytical literature today.

The book represents essential reading for Lacanian psychoanalysts, as well as researchers at the cross-section of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and gender studies.

By: Guy Le Gaufey
Translated by: Cormac Gallagher
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367420468
ISBN 10: 0367420465
Pages: 116
Publication Date: 04 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue; Chapter 1: The logic of the sexual fault; Chapter 2: Towards a critical reading of the formulae of sexuation; Chapter 3: Some clinical consequences of the logical difference between the sexes; Chapter 4: Scholion: a misuse of metaphor

Guy Le Gaufey was a member of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris and co-founded the Lacanian journal Littoral and the École lacanienne de psychanalyse. He has written and published widely in French, English, and Spanish and has also translated books from English to French, including the work of Philip Larkin (see www.legaufey.fr).