Anxiety of Influence
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Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.117
BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > FOUR LACANIAN TAKES TO RETHINK THE TRANS EXPERIENCE > THE BODY I WROTE
Theoretical move: The passage develops a "clinic of the clinamen" by mapping the Lucretian/Bloomian swerve onto Lacan's sinthome, arguing that for trans subjects, corporeal transformation alone is insufficient and that an *ego scriptor*—a writing-self—must intervene to constitute the body through inscription, thereby treating the sinthome not as pathology but as creative solution operating in the register of the Real.
The concept of harkens back to Harold Bloom's theory of poetic influence, particularly his idea of the anxiety of influence. According to Bloom (1973), poets are inevitably influenced by the work of earlier poets.