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The notion of man in Lacan: a reading of the Sexuation Formulas through the gendered history of masculinity in the West

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Author(s):
Pedro Eduardo Silva Ambra
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Nelson da Silva Junior; Thamy Claude Ayouch; Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker
Advisor: Nelson da Silva Junior
Abstract

This research underlines some elements from the history of masculinity in the West that would contribute to a particular reading of the Jacques Lacans sexuation formulas. Using the notion of man as a method, seminars undertaken between 1967 and 1973 were analyzed, in a period that includes both a valuation of the dimension of history by the French psychoanalyst as the actual development of the formulas. It is found to be a possible limit in Lacans appropriation of the Freudian myth of Totem and Taboo, bound to the formal specificity required by the internal logic of the formulas. The studys attempt is to demonstrate how a historical construction of masculinity and virility representations respond accurately to the demands required to support the formal logic of sexuation, as presented at the formulas. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 11/04602-0 - The concept of masculine in Lacan: language and the social bond
Grantee:Pedro Eduardo Silva Ambra
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master