This book argues that structuralism makes itself useful when it engages with the non-Oedipal logics of femininity and psychosis. Building from the psychoanalytic belief that norms repress unconscious desire while structures open onto the creative resources of the symbolic, Sex for Structuralists looks to key texts in myth, trauma, and unconscious fantasy by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Claude Lévi-Strauss. It also examines innovative writings by contemporary Lacanian thinkers in order to discover what becomes of structuralism when the ground upon which it ostensibly stands (namely, that of the zero symbol or the incest prohibition) drops out from under it.
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1 The Criteria of the Future |
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1.1 Structure and the Symbolic |
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1.2 Outline of the Project |
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13 | (6) |
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17 | (2) |
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2 Primal Scene, Ground Zero: Levi-Strauss, Lacan, and the Wolf Man Beyond the Seduction |
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2.1 Levi-Strauss the Synthesist |
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2.2 The Signifier of the Lack in the Other |
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26 | (3) |
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2.3 From Seduction to the Insoluble |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (7) |
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37 | (2) |
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3 Madness and the Sensitive Anthropologist: Levi-Strauss's New Structuralism |
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3.1 No Society Is Wholly Symbolic |
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3.2 The Condition of Symbolic Thinking |
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51 | (3) |
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54 | (7) |
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58 | (3) |
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4 Two Traumas, Not One: The Feminine in Myth |
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61 | (22) |
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65 | (1) |
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66 | (5) |
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71 | (6) |
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77 | (6) |
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81 | (2) |
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5 The Mythologist's Aesthetic Task: Amelia |
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83 | (20) |
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88 | (3) |
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5.2 Two Traumas: Generating Mister Babadook |
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91 | (1) |
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5.3 Becoming a Mythologist: First Condition, (Dis) Belief |
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5.4 Second Condition, Free Association |
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5.5 Third Condition, "A Limit to the Drive Where the Law Was Unable" |
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97 | (2) |
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99 | (4) |
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101 | (2) |
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6 Sex for Structuralists: From Myth to Fantasy |
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6.1 Lacan's Formulas of Sexuation |
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105 | (4) |
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6.2 The "Real-of-the-Structure" |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (5) |
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116 | (2) |
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118 | (9) |
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124 | (3) |
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7 How Do We Use Structuralism? |
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127 | (6) |
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132 | (1) |
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Shanna de la Torre is a social worker in practice in Minnesota, USA. She received her MSW from the University of Minnesota and her PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University, USA. Her writings have appeared in differences: A Feminist Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Transgender Studies Reader, Volume 2, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
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