ABSTRACT

So far, I have elaborated an account of Freud’s Oedipal Complex as a matrix, which gives limits to the body as an archive. I stressed that the body is built through historical and political narratives and emphasized how in Freud’s time many bodies were suffering an epistemic crisis of the body because of the fall of the Pater Familias. I also stated that the way of understanding sexual difference has relied on the difference between masculinity and femininity. In psychoanalysis, one position (masculinity) or the other (femininity) relies on a certain duality determined by the presence of a penis or a lack of it.