The restricted economy of the phallus: Derridean critique of Lacan’s sexual theory
The article analyzes Derrida’s criticism, in “Le facteur de la vérité”, against the phallocentrism of Lacan’s logic of the signifier. To do this, we show how deconstruction starts from the idea that the focus on the phallus is one of Lacan’s ways of being faithful to Freud’s idea about the libido be...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) |
| Repository: | Princípios (Natal. Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufrn.br:article/35543 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/35543 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Derrida Lacan sexual theory logic of the signifier phallocentrism teoria sexual lógica do signigicante falocentrismo |
| Summary: | The article analyzes Derrida’s criticism, in “Le facteur de la vérité”, against the phallocentrism of Lacan’s logic of the signifier. To do this, we show how deconstruction starts from the idea that the focus on the phallus is one of Lacan’s ways of being faithful to Freud’s idea about the libido being masculine. Derrida makes this link explicit through the interpretation that the French psychoanalyst produces of the short story “The Purloined Letter”, by Poe, since such an interpretation would transform literature into an illustration of the Freudian thesis indicated above. Resuming this quarrel between Derrida and Lacan allows us not only to indicate the strength of the deconstructive critique of the restricted economy of the phallus, but also to defend the hypothesis that the scene of Derrida’s writing is too tied to what he knew of Lacan in Écrits, which allows to suppose that Lacanian psychoanalysis has another sexual theory than just the one that deconstruction aims to dismantle. |
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