Libidinal Viscosity
On this page 1 section ›
This concept page does not yet have synthesis content. The extractor flagged it as a load-bearing concept; a future synthesis pass will populate it. The All Occurrences section below shows every place it appears in the corpus.
All occurrences
Where it appears in the corpus (1)
-
#01
Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.87
BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > FOUR LACANIAN TAKES TO RETHINK THE TRANS EXPERIENCE > THE DRIVE TO BEAUTY
Theoretical move: The passage argues that the transgender "drive to beauty" exceeds the Imaginary register of mere appearance and accesses an ethical-Real dimension analogous to Antigone's sublime beauty in Lacan: beauty functions as a protective barrier against jouissance and a site between two deaths, so that the trans demand to be recognized as beautiful is ultimately a demand for ontological recognition ("I am").
The viscosity of the libido denotes a stickiness or rigidity in libidinal energy. A viscous libido becomes overly attached to specific objects, ideas, or symptoms, resisting change even in the face of suffering or stagnation.