Clinic of the Clinamen
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Where it appears in the corpus (2)
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#01
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.154
**CLINIC OF THE CLINAMEN** > **Enjoy your sinthome!**
Theoretical move: Gherovici deploys the Lucretian concept of 'clinamen' (the infinitesimal, unpredictable swerve of atoms) as a structural analogue to the Lacanian sinthome, arguing that both name a creative deviation that re-knots the Borromean registers and that this framework—rather than a pathologizing clinical structure—offers the proper analytic lens for transgender embodiment and symptomatology.
This shift leads me to what I will call a clinic of the clinamen, a term that anticipates the new knotting produced by the sinthome.
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#02
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.20
**INTRODUCTION** > **The moment is now** > **Transitions**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that Lacan's concept of the sinthome—redefining the symptom as a singular invention enabling one to live rather than a repressed signifier to be decoded—opens a post-Oedipal, post-phallic framework for thinking sexual difference and offers positive clinical outcomes for trans analysands, extended by the author's proposed "clinic of the clinamen."
I attempt to develop a clinic of the clinamen, which will function as an extension of Lacan's theory of the sinthome.