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Missing Signifier

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Sex Is the Missing Signifier

The 'missing signifier' is the point where there's something that can't be signified. The symbolic structure needs this one exclusion in order to function properly, she says. Lecon uses it as a way of asking questions about what sex is and how it fits into our world.

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