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The New Hysteria of the University
Melair is calling it a new hysteria. He's trying to locate it as a certain symptomatic problem which is deluding itself. But Lacan already saw the decline of the paternal function and the crisis of sexual difference. And so, I think a lot of Lacanians took that early premonition of Lacan and they irrigate a certain authority onto themselves to make a sweeping clinical diagnosis... Which I think you're rightly putting into question. Now, on the flip side of Prasciato, you're saying here it's not merely an advocacy of the rights of trans people, but there's something more that Prasciao is also doing. Could you say something briefly