ABSTRACT

Apprenticeship The male subjects process o f specul(ariz)ation |...| is an intervention required by those effects o f negation that result from or are set in motion through a censure o f the feminine, though the feminine will be allowed and even obliged to return in such oppositions as: be/become, have/m>f have sex (organ), phallic/tum-phallic, penis/clitoris or else penis/vagina, p\us/minus, clearly represented/dark continent, logos/silence or idle chatter, desire for the mother/desire to he the mother, etc. [-1 And even as man seeks to rise higher and higher-in his knowledge too-so the ground fractures beneath his feet. ‘Nature’ is forever dodging his projects o f representation, o f reproduction.