Womanliness in psychoanalysis: the controversy about the phallic primacy

Authors

  • Paulo Vidal Universidade Federal Fluminense
  • Flávia Bonfim Especialização em Psicanálise e Laço Social UFF

Keywords:

femininity, phallus, psychoanalysis, supplementary jouissance.

Abstract

Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the freudian postulate of the phallus primacy in the construction of sexuality has resulted in a controversy about its role in femininity. In order to retrace this controversy, we present the freudian approach, then we review formulations on "becoming woman" by two postfreudians, Klein and Jones, who have not specified femininity through the phallic function, but through the shift from oral libido to the genitals. Last, we  present how Lacan interfered in that "phallic quarrel", acknowledging that a woman is inscribed but not wholly in the phallic logic and introducing the notion of a supplementary feminine enjoyment.

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Author Biographies

Paulo Vidal, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Psicanalista. Doutor em Teoria Psicanalítica pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, professor-associado do Curso de Psicologia e da Pós-graduação em Psicanálise e Laço Social da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

Flávia Bonfim, Especialização em Psicanálise e Laço Social UFF

Psicóloga. Mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Pesquisa e Clínica em Psicanálise do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Pós-Graduada em Psicanálise e Laço Social da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

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Published

2009-12-30

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VIDAL, P.; BONFIM, F. Womanliness in psychoanalysis: the controversy about the phallic primacy. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 21, n. 3, p. 539-548, 30 Dec. 2009.

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Vol. 21 No. 3 (2009)

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