Embodiment
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#01
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.45
**GENDER IN THE BLENDER** > **Moving beyond the dichotomy of boy and girl**
Theoretical move: Lacan's sexuation formulae—by grounding sexual difference in modes of jouissance rather than anatomy—offer a clinical and theoretical framework capable of accounting for trans and non-binary subjectivities, demonstrating that gender is an imaginary effect of a real difference and that bodily identity is a fiction constituted through identification rather than anatomical destiny.
In their testimonies we confirm that having a body entails a complex process of embodiment... Something else is needed for that process of embodiment to be successful.
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#02
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.115
**PLASTIC SEX, THE BEAUTY OF IT**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that the trans experience of bodily alienation is not pathological but reveals a universal condition: all subjects must undergo a process of embodiment that bridges a disjunction between experienced and given body. Moving beyond the mirror stage's imaginary identification, Gherovici draws on the Joycean body (ego supported by art/writing rather than image) to propose that gender transition is fundamentally about mortality and subjective death-and-rebirth rather than merely anatomical or sexual reassignment.
there has to be a process of embodiment, that it will be at play for everyone who tries to bridge the gap and embody their carnal reality in order to flesh out subjectivity.