Hors-sex
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.93
**THE SWEET SCIENCE OF TRANSITION**
Theoretical move: Gherovici argues that being "outside sex" (hors-sex) is not a marker of psychosis but a structural feature of hysteria, and that trans men analysands often exhibit a hysterical structure characterised by an irreducible indecision about sexual positioning, dissatisfied desire, and a defensive strategy against castration — thereby relocating the clinical question of trans identity from foreclosure to neurosis.
Superficially, it resembles Catherine Millot's theory of an 'horsexe,' this 'outside sexuality' that would define transsexuality