Woman does not exist. A love letter

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 hy...

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Published inInternational journal on humanistic ideology Vol. IX; no. 1; pp. 51 - 68
Main Author Bodea, Cristian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Presa Universitara Clujeana 2019
Cluj University Press
Subjects
Cultural Essay
Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
General Reference Works
Philosophy
Psychology
Social Sciences
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Special Branches of Philosophy
formula of sexuation
woman
Lacanian psychoanalysis
the hysteric subject
man
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ISSN1844-458X
2285-4517

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Summary: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?
ISSN:1844-458X
2285-4517