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The Woman Doesn't Exist (Aphorism 8)

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Is Sexual Difference Necessary for Psychoanalysis?

Linke: Is the fact that we are sexed necessarily linked to our sexual identity? Lacon: Maybe there's just, maybe the entire cultural apparatus emerges in response to that logical contradiction. And so you can't just map one part on to another part, but the whole thing is a response to to a contradiction. Linke: It does even raise the question of whether sexual difference is necessary for psychoanalysis.

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