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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 497–517.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jordan Osserman Abstract This article examines the role of anatomy in Lacan's theory of the phallus, focusing on a fundamental question insufficiently addressed in Lacanian thought: Does the penis really matter, and if so, why and how? The question is addressed by analyzing Lacan's work...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 431–450.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as phantom, and the trans child's phantasmatic body in particular, the analysis puts Freudian and Lacanian understandings of the penis/phallus into conversation with biographical narratives of trans childhood. Thus, it argues that both trans-affirmative and transphobic narratives that temporally position...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 534–555.
Published: 01 November 2017
... with the signifier” and argued that the penis (an organ) can be confused with the phallus (an instrument), that is, as a signifying tool that is operative only as an effect of language. 6 This is a common error that in some cases can lead to the surgical removal of physical attributes like the breasts...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 341–344.
Published: 01 May 2015
... hegemonic violence. The hybrid who lacks the phallus that would position it within the boundaries of the sex binary is in fact holding a dead rooster—a dead cock. The lack of the phallus is nearly as bad as its loss within the patriarchal narrative, since the phallus is the symbol of power...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 326–357.
Published: 01 November 2017
... psychoanalytic scholar interested in questions of sexual difference and leftist politics. Following Shanna Carlson's call in TSQ ( 2014 : 171) to reengage the question of the Lacanian phallus along with its status as fundamental signifier for the subject's lack-in-being, Osserman explains how Lacanian writing...
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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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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 394–403.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... The challenge of sexual difference is that the apparent split between masculine and feminine positions is not meant to gesture toward the possibility of unification, of oneness. Rather, such oneness is already impossibly lost. The phallus, as a signifier around which one may choose to be “subject...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 321–331.
Published: 01 August 2020
... a figure for the “lack” we all face—woman! Sound familiar? It should. Butler ( 1993b ) called bullshit long ago on this fusing of lack and woman, asking in “The Lesbian Phallus” and other places why it would make sense to use the figure of the woman to represent lack, given that women are well trained...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 556–576.
Published: 01 November 2017
... is their use of the phallus. De Lauretis seems to maintain the Freudian distinction between two kinds of phalluses, a paternal and a maternal one, the former signifying presence, the second absence. De Lauretis holds that the presence/absence dualism is responsible for sexual difference (224n). Mieli instead...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (2): 223–237.
Published: 01 May 2021
... straightness in the room. While the clown nose is under suspicion for being a phallic symbol (Bakhtin [1968] 1984 : 316), this clown is using the nose to mess up the gender order, making use of its strap-on qualities. The teacher reads the nose as a symbol of the phallus. As s_he reads that phallus through...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 February 2020
... castration the child confronts the phallus—not as any material object, but as a paradoxical signifier for both lack and the “mOther's” desire. By sparking an enduring wish for completeness, or a lack of lack, the phallus marks our entrance into the symbolic order (Fink 1996 ; Lacan [1966] 2006c ). Although...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 169–171.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that occupy these sites. Additionally, work needs to be done with the “phallic function,” perhaps beginning with radical rereadings of the phallus as the signifier for the subject's lack-in-being. References Currah Paisley , Juang Richard M. , and Minter Shannon Price . 2006...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 472–496.
Published: 01 November 2017
... by Salecl Renata , 1 – 9 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Silverman Kaja . 1992 . “ The Lacanian Phallus .” differences 4 , no. 1 : 84 – 115 . Stavrakakis Yannis . 1999 . Lacan and the Political . London : Routledge . Stone Sandy . 1992 . “ The Empire...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 517–522.
Published: 01 November 2014
... grabs the phallus and victoriously wields it, as the audience cheers gleefully. As the cop buckles in feigned agony, she triumphantly discards the dildo before exiting the stage, the audience still ecstatic. This scene is the climax of Because We Have a Voice Too (hereafter BWHAVT ), a street-style...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 668–674.
Published: 01 November 2017
... this title lowercase, rendering it more conversational, as if it were a personal letter. 2. Psychoanalysis has a way of getting itself into trouble by assigning unique import to common words ( fantasy , phallus , woman , etc). Symptom is not being used, here, as a set of particular medicalized...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (1): 124–131.
Published: 01 February 2019
..., and you could you use it for people who were inside. Fourteen was the drunkard and sixteen was the ass ( ’o vascio ), while twenty-nine stood for the phallus. ( . . . ) Not much is left now of the first years of MIT: a few worn-out documents, manifestos, meeting minutes, and many memories...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 426–448.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to submit to Densdeth after first objectifying and depersonalizing him. On the one hand, that is, the scene renders Densdeth an object, reduced to nothing more than a large phallus figured metonymically as a valuable magnum of wine. On the other hand, it creates a scenario in which Byng is allowed...
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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 (3): 402–418.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., the size of the phallus remains the most important measure, whereas for bodies classified as female, breast size and age of menstruation are emphasized. In order to minimize the arbitrariness of determining “when” puberty is supposed to take place, medical studies have produced variously phallocentric...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 451–471.
Published: 01 November 2017
... stage, around retention and expulsion and correspondingly, that passivity and activity constitute the representational precursors of what, in the genital face, will be understood as sexual difference around the presence and absence of the phallus. In his 1908 paper “Character and Anal Eroticism...