Abstract

MANZI FILHO, Ronaldo. Would the phallus be a matter of anatomy or not? Taking a certain mistrust of Butler's of Lacanian theory to its logical extreme. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2014, vol.48, n.4, pp.127-137. ISSN 0486-641X.

It is a commonly accepted idea that the phallus signifier in Lacanian theory has no anatomical remnant. Thus, if in Freud the Oedipus complex was linked to the perception of the presence and absence of the penis (to have or to not have a penis), in Lacan, when he thinks the function of the phallus as independent of any empirical reference, this dependence on anatomy is literally excluded from the field of psychoanalysis (the question becomes the subject's position in the dialectic of being or having the phallus). Some thinkers, however, and Judith Butler in particular, question this independence of the phallus from anatomy in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. This paper intends to evaluate the feminist author's critique from within a strictly Lacanian perspective.

Keywords : penis; phallus; perception; function; feminine Oedipus complex.

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