Vol. 2 (2020): Sexuation. Oedipus, logics, jouissance
With the tragic myth of Sophocles' Oedipus, Freud manages to establish the hypothesis of the universal Oedipus Complex and its consequences for sexuality. The Oedipal father appears as the one who carries the threat of castration before the intention of incest, proposing the exogamous exit of the family nucleus. Freud, in texts such as "Totem and Taboo" and "Moses and the Monotheistic Religion", presents the father as a powerful figure who represents the Law for all.
Lacan will approach the Oedipus Complex as a metaphor, in which one signifier is replaced by another. He proposes the Name of the Father as the privileged signifier that organizes the new signification that results from that symbolic operation. However, Lacan has always been aware that this is a way of typifying sexuality, but that it is not the only one, since there is no being of sex. The intervention of language will produce a subject in lack, as a void of signification around sexuality, outside of any possibility of saying what is a woman and what is a man. As a production, a subject will be left trying to border this hole, to construct a knowledge of his unconscious truth that refers to saying something about this void.
From the invention of the object a, Lacan advanced in his teaching by proposing a new logical path for the process of sexuation different from the Paternal Metaphor. In the seventies, he unfolds it with the tables of sexuation and with the axiom of the absence of sexual proportion or relation in the human species.
With the hypothesis of the unconscious and with the denaturalization of the sexes by language, psychoanalysis opened a new field of research. Nowadays, new actors and discourses have come to the fore, fervently questioning this territory, a fact that has prompted psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts to question their praxis and foundations as well. Hence, in this issue we propose to open a space to continue exploring such a broad but intimate terrain as the issue of sexuation.
