FERREIRA, Andréa Eulálio de Paula    LUCHINA, Márcia Maria Rosa Vieira. Maternal devastation and its repercussions in romantic partnerships. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2020, 26, 1, pp.228-245. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n1p221-238.

Feminine sexuality is enigmatic, which raises many reflections on femininity. The discovery that sex is not a natural phenomenon, but the result of phallic subjectivity, is an extremely significant milestone for female sexuality. According to Freud, the devastation would be related to the fate of phallus for a girl. Freud notes that some women remain fixed in the original attachment to their mothers, and never achieve a real change in the relationship with men. Lacan goes beyond the phallic articulation, realizing that the phallus does not saturate the jouissance field in feminine sexuality. What is at stake is the feminine jouissance, which is not totally submitted to the phallic function. The term devastation arises as a consequence of the absence of a significant that defines a woman and It appears in three different moments in Lacanian theory: in the relationship with the mother, in the relationship with the mother’s desire and in love partnerships.

: Phallic jouissance; Supplementary jouissance; Devastation; Feminine sexuality; Love partnerships.

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