The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan

<p>In <em>The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan</em>, I argue for an account of sexual difference that responds to a tension in feminist philosophy, namely, the problem of the ontological status of the sexed body. In so doing, I turn to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan. I argue that, rather than being antithetical, the two can be productively read together, in particular with regard to this very question. Ultimately basing my reading in the Deleuzian passive syntheses and dynamic geneses of <em>Difference and Repetition </em>and <em>The Logic of Sense </em>as well as in Lacan’s twentieth Seminar on sexuation with respect to the phallic function, I argue that we should see sexual difference as a kind of generative void that propels the subject forward in its perpetual processes of becoming. Thus we get a materialist but non-reductive account of sexual difference or sexuation as a kind of back-turning relation of thought and the body in a constitutively incomplete interplay.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

One-year Embargo

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Lovett, Matthew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Daniel Selcer
• Tom Eyers
• Claire Colebrook

• Deleuze
• Lacan
• Sexual Difference
• Feminist Theory
• Psychoanalysis
• Continental Philosophy
• Gender Studies
• Sexuation
• Feminist Philosophy
• Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Other Psychiatry and Psychology
• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1418

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1304