ABSTRACT
Part II, Some Notes for a Genealogy of Sexuation, focuses on applying our feminist discursive mediation of Lacanian theory to how the subject “woman” is constructed in Europe. We thus aim to illustrate how the imposition of the Master Signifier masculine implies a process of androcentrification through which the masculine subject is placed as the standard and ideal until it becomes the hegemony and unique, desirable subjectivity. Furthermore, we believe that the process of androcentrification consists of three different phases. First, there is a stigmatization of the feminine that implies its subordination toward the masculine. Second, this stigmatization results in total exclusion of the feminine from Reality, positioning the masculine ideal as the only desirable subjectivity. Finally, the third phase consists of the transformation of feminine subjects into masculine ones. Chapter 7 focuses on the first phase of the process of androcentrification. Thus, this chapter develops a feminist analysis on how that which is conceived as the feminine has been stigmatized and subordinated. What this chapter aims to show, in political and Lacanian terms, is how the ontological level of Reality is masculinized. The analysis starts with a critique of the Aristotelian division between matter and form, as a division that operates excluding women from Reality, and consists of a bibliographic review of different works characterized by a critique to androcentric epistemology and ontology.
