ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case of Ilse that shows how one way of inventing such a sinthome is to make use of the new forms of parenthood taking shape in societies today. Ilse, a thirty-year-old woman, had begun her analysis with C. because she had had difficulties with love in the relations with her partners, who were always women, and because of her troubled family background. She experienced a sexual excitement that seemed obscene to her and that made her feel shame when there were demonstrations against Le Pen and when reading news items about incest. Until the day when, at the age of six, her mother had had Ilse's long hair cut, Ilse had no particular memories. This chapter explores what begins to emerge as a possible relation of complementarity between the two closed and separate worlds of men and women; on one side, the mutilated sexual organ, and on the other, masculine power, rape.
