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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 565–573.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jennifer Wilson Abstract This article is a profile of “the skoptsy,” a Christian sect that emerged in tsarist Russia whose followers, in an effort to divest themselves from the organs of sin, practiced castration as a form of religious piety. The skoptsy believed that before the fall of Adam...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (4): 710–716.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Ariel B. Handy; Thomas W. Johnson Abstract The Eunuch Archive (EA) is an online community of individuals who identify as a eunuch or have strong interests in castration. The Eunuch Archive contains various discussion forums ranging from safe castration methods to the physical and psychological...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (2): 265–269.
Published: 01 May 2021
... into criminal and condemned in sweeping terms an entire community, vilifying the hijras as “unnatural prostitutes,” beggars, kidnappers of young boys, and castrators. Hinchy makes a powerful argument that the making of anti-hijra legislation was not simply the product of importing gender and sexual regimes...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (4): 725–728.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Buddhist and Daoist imaginings of gender androgyny; the problem of writing eunuchism and castration into history; transgender representations in literature, art, theater, film, and television; to transgender activism in present-day Hong Kong. The diversity in periods, representational genres, and methods...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 February 2020
... appraisal of its origins. Most psychoanalytic theorists who address perversion are using one of two separate paradigms in Freud's work: the polymorphous perversity of the pre-Oedipal child and the unbound partial drives; or the Oedipal drama of castration, disavowal, and fetishism (Nobus and Downing...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 518–533.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... In this theory, Lacan both elucidates and performs the knotting of the three registers—in the descriptors “male” and “female” for the two different ways in relation to castration, in the use of “phallus” as the index of the grammar of castration, psychoanalysis is performative of gender in Butler's sense...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 517–522.
Published: 01 November 2014
... is the root problem. Linking bodily castration to a broader critique of patriarchy echoes the deeply set public anxieties around emasculation that render hijra s targets of ridicule. On the other hand, it is by lifting their saris and flashing offending strangers that hijra s performatively shame verbal...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 497–517.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to fill the lack in the Other to an acceptance of lack as the condition of desire (symbolic castration). To think about this problem within the terms of Lacanian theory, we might remember that to speak of any one of the registers of the imaginary, symbolic, or real in isolation from the others...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (3): 458–480.
Published: 01 August 2024
...) desires . This is what is referred to as the phallic function, or symbolic castration, which insists on lack and incompletion as the truth of the desiring subject. “The Name-of-the-Father” metaphorizes desire (the name comes to stand for the desire of the mother) and enters the child into their own...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 499–507.
Published: 01 August 2020
... cannot be defined, Acker goes back into that labyrinth, where she last caught a glimpse of the body that escapes reason. If under the sign of Descartes, the body of woman is unknowable, then we must castrate this model of man and remove the seat of reason that governs the body: the head. The cephalic...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 383–398.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... —Judith Butler, “Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Heterosexual Matrix” What the neurotic shrinks back from is not castration, but from turning his castration into what the Other lacks. He shrinks back from turning his castration into something positive, namely, the guarantee of the function...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 192–207.
Published: 01 May 2020
... their clothes in a frenzy. Somehow in this chaos, Mariam has a flashback of Kaboto taking a Black lover off of her while they were having sex. He forces Mariam to castrate her lover while Kaboto watches. The memory makes her start screaming and run out of the ritual. This elaborate scene...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 320–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
... or transition between kodi and bhelki states. Raina herself alternated between androgynous and feminine attire before mostly adopting the latter. While some of them joined hijra clans and professions, underwent castration-penectomy and adopted consistent feminine attire, others, like Raina, did not join...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 431–450.
Published: 01 November 2017
... – 17 . Lacan Jacques . (1958) 1977 . “ The Signification of the Phallus .” In Écrits , translated by Sheridan Alan , 281 – 91 . London : Tavistock . Lacan Jacques . (1968–76) 1982 . “ The Phallic Phase and the Subjective Import of the Castration Complex .” In Feminine...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 556–576.
Published: 01 November 2017
... at the same time as its gets disavowed ( De Lauretis 1994 : 192). 18 What exactly is disavowed in lesbianism for De Lauretis? Lesbian desire and subjectivity are intertwined with castration and its very disavowal. In the chapter titled “The Lure of the Mannish Lesbian” (in De Lauretis 1994 ), De Lauretis...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 199–207.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Coleman to “tell us the castration story,” a task that he first blushes at but ultimately obliges. Coleman remarks on the way that playing music from a young age put him out of joint with the desires of others. Never able to parse if people were attracted to him or to his musical talent, Coleman...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 472–496.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to avoid (the anxiety of) castration” ( Žižek 2016c ). However one might describe the “art” of trans* embodiment, written or otherwise, Lacanian approaches to transsubjectivity stress the importance of engaging the signifier in ways that touch the real ( Gherovici 2014 : 255). This engagement...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 161–163.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of vaginas and penises) were considered cosmetic plastic operations on par with getting a nose job (Stryker and Sullivan 2009 ). This way of thinking about the relationship between surgery, sex, and social status is ancient—castration (orchiectomy) has been practiced for millennia on male human captives...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 169–171.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of psychoanalysis in other ways, too. The “truth” with which Lacanian psychoanalysis concerns itself is the idea that the subject is divided from itself; this truth goes by various names, including subjective division and, controversially, castration. In Lacanian terminology, hysteria is that psychic structure most...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 239–246.
Published: 01 November 2023
... a masculine sexuality and, beyond economic necessity, is motivated and dominated by a need to acquire whatever capitalism accords status and power. The phallus in this regard is the object that sutures a fundamental “castration” but which is impossible to obtain, thus making the quest for status, domination...
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