Vers une multitude de sexes ?

Abstract

This article focuses on the choice of a nomination by a subject when it comes to describing their sex, whether it be a ‘third sex’, or quite simply their hetero- homo- or transexuality. The author reminds us that Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysis does not make a fetish of either anatomy or sexual difference. The author reviews a series of prejudices, albeit oedipal, which endeavour to see in analytical discourse a vector of normalisation.

Keywords

• sexual difference
• gender studies
• queer studies
• social constructivism
• heterosexual norm
• third sex