ABSTRACT
Part II, Some Notes for a Genealogy of Sexuation, focuses on the application of 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 8 focuses on the analysis of how androcentrification occurs at the ontic level through the imposition of two different hegemonic political discourses—liberal and orthodox Marxism. This chapter argues that these two different discourses rely on the sexual differentiation and subordination that androcentrism implies. Thus, we focus on analyzing how these two discourses share an androcentric base and reproduce the same sexuation present in the Master’s Discourse that gives shape to Reality.
