Abstract

SILVA, Thais Limp  and  MARCOS, Cristina Moreira. The Act as a Treatment for Female Devastation. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.3, pp. 1-11. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v20i3.e10269.

This article approaches, based on Jacques Lacan's theory, the female devastation as a consequence of the woman's location as not-all in phallic logic. The point in this work is to find out how an act can be a possibility of treatment of the devastation. For this purpose, two resources were used to understand this proposal: the work Medea, dated 413 b.C., and the story of Holk, published in a book called Patu. The Lacanian proposal about the feminine used here is the one formulated in 1971, in which the sexual division occurs in two modes of jouissance: phallic enjoyment, located on the male side, and feminine enjoyment, located on the female side. The proposal of feminine enjoyment indicates that the woman is not all referred to the phallus, which can have as one of its consequences the devastation of love, that affects the feminine parlêtre. About the act, Lacan's theory is also used, especially the 1969 proposals, in which the act acquires the dimension of a significant mark, that delimits a new beginning for the subject, in which if it is erased at the moment of the act, resurfaces after the action. After presenting the two main theorizations, the article aims to demonstrate how Medea can emerge from the devastation that she was in, after being left by Jason, through the act of killing her children. And also, how Holk makes his way, moving the unconscious, forging a new signifier in the analysis: patu (a signifier that ciphered female enjoyment) the dimension of the analytic act is present here.

Keywords : Act; devastation; feminine.

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