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

Sep 25, 2022

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Queer Erotics in the Wolf Man

01:25

What Is the Real Unconscious?

03:04

Is the Psychoanalyst a Contemporary Shaman?

02:41

Introduction

3min

Is It the Case That You're a Student of Tinn Psychoanalysis?

2min

Is Gender a Deterministic of What's Happening at That Level?

2min

A Book About Trans and Queer Sexuality

3min

What Really Is Structualism?

3min

Is Juis Butler's Structuralism a Criticism?

2min

What Is the Definition of the Symbolic Am?

2min

What's Going on in Quennagi?

3min

Is There Something in the Reading of Lecon That You've Found Useful?

2min

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What Is the Real Unconscious?

3min

11.

What's in the Real Unconscious?

5min

12.

Is the First Trama the Same for Everyone?

2min

13.

A, if F, What's the Relationship to a Drama?

3min

14.

How Does She Resolve Her Relationship With the Monster?

2min

15.

Are Primal Senes Real?

2min

16.

Queer Erotics in the Wolf Man

1min

17.

Does Structuralism Relieve Us of the Need to Locate This an Actual Reality?

2min

18.

The Effectiveness of Symbols by Levy Strauss

2min

19.

Is the Psychoanalyst a Contemporary Shaman?

3min

20.

A Different Kind of Function for a Different Kind of Problem

2min

21.

The Feminine Juissance in Semen 20

2min

22.

Is It More Ambiguous?

2min

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Femininity and Psychosis in Relationships

2min

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Femininity and Psychosis - Is That a Trap?

2min

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What's Next for You?

2min

This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.

What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex? What happens if we understand Lacan’s notion of the symbolic as creative, rather than prohibitory? And what’s the difference between the psychoanalyst and the shaman? Shanna de la Torre’s Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) performs a careful reading of Freudian, Lacanian and structuralist texts in order to offer a new way of conceiving of the objects and aims of psychoanalysis today. Alongside it she introduces us to an alternative perspective on Lacan emerging from analysts associated with GIFRIC, a Lacanian school based in Quebec. Listen in as we work our way through some of the book’s major concerns and their implications for theory and practice.

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