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NBN Classic: Shanna de la Torre, "Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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Are Primal Senes Real?

The film's not necessarily possible to talk about this creature as a purely aa hallucination or something that's in her mind. And so i think, yet, one of the things that's so interesting is, how is it that a psychic problem, which seems like it should just be her own, is actually kind of spilling out into the world surrounding her? "It brings to mind the sort of laplancian formulation of the transmission of the enigmatic signifier from from one person to another," he says.

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