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Missing Signifier

Why Theory

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M alinka says sex is not what's missing, but how we relate to it. The psychoanalytic name for that one signifier missing is castration,. So it's the castration of the other. Is the thing that can't be integrated into symbolization. And then the attitude that we take up to castration is our attitude toward sexual relations.

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