Sexual Difference in Debate

Leticia Glocer Fiorini is a training psychoanalyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of 'The Feminine and the Complex Thought', 'Deconstructing the Feminine: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Theories of Complexity', and editor of 'The Other in the Intersubjective Field' and 'Time, History and Structure. A Psychoanalytical Approach'. Among other contributions in psychoanalytic journals she has published 'The enigma of the sexual difference', in 'Feminine Scenarios"'; 'Assisted fertilization, new problems' in 'Prevention in Mental Health'; 'The sexed body and the real, its meaning in transsexualism' in 'Masculine Scenarios'; 'Psychoanalysis and Gender, Convergences and Divergences' in 'Psychoanalysis and Gender Relations'; and 'The bodies of present-day maternity' in 'Motherhood in the Twenty-first Century'.

'Sexual Difference in Debate is a remarkable book in which Leticia Glocer Fiorini shows the evolution of psychoanalytic thinking concerning sexuality, and describes her own original contributions for a better understanding of sexual difference. In this sense, her book is both rooted in classical psychoanalytic formulations and presents a contemporary and fresh look at this challenging field, which is at the core of psychoanalytic theory and practice. I strongly recommend it, both to seasoned analysts and to those who are beginners in our field. The elegant style and the convincing evidence displayed masterfully by Glocer Fiorini are a source of stimulation to improve our theoretical understanding and our clinical skills.'-- Claudio Laks Eizirik, past president of the International Psychoanalytical Association'In this book of crucial importance, Leticia Glocer Fiorini, anchored in a deep knowledgeof the Freudian corpus, tackles fundamental contemporary questions. Combining a rare transcultural erudition with a concise and clear style, the author revisits the question of the difference between the sexes. She thus links up developments of contemporary psychoanalysis with recent philosophical and anthropological contributions. These rigorous analyses enable her, among other things, to shift the "enigma of the feminine" on to the enigma of alterity and the question of the "father" on to that of a third function. With this book, Glocer Fiorini has opened up a genuine interdisciplinary debate.'-- Marilia Aisenstein, training analyst of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society and the Paris Psychoanalytical Society; former president of the Paris Society and of the Paris Psychosomatic Institute

• Preface , Introduction , Masculine–Feminine , A transdisciplinary view with intradisciplinary effects , The sexed subject and current realities— their impact on conceptualisations of sexual difference , Freud's epistemic context and discourse , The Oedipus–Castration complex and sexual difference , Freudian logic—meta-theories on sexual difference , Post-Freudian and contemporary controversies , Otherness in the field of sexual difference , Itinerant Sexualities , Sexual and gender migrations , Homosexualities , Unconventional parentalities and subjective production , Bodies, fictions, and desires in contemporary maternities and paternities , Sexual Difference—Towards A Possible Deconstruction , Desire for a child: ideals, discourses, and mandates , Power relations and sexual difference , Sexual difference and binary logic , Deconstructing the paternal function—paternal function or third-party function? , Conclusions and openings