ABSTRACT
This section discusses Freud’s and Lacan’s interpretations of repression and highlights the importance of taking account of the spatiality of signifiers. It considers the ways signifying movements produce an effect of body that allows one to go beyond sociological constructions of sexual difference. It also illuminates how signifiers, jouissance, and letters are spatial operations and not merely linguistic operations. This section introduces readers to the importance of the element of voice in psychoanalytical approaches to sexual difference.
