Plastic Sexuality
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.119
**PLASTIC SEX, THE BEAUTY OF IT** > **The plasticity of gender**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that sexual identity transcends anatomical plasticity by invoking the death drive as a structural limit to the promise of endless gender transformation — against both Giddens' "plastic sexuality" (freed from the phallus and reproduction) and Butler's performative plasticity, the real of mortality and the drive return as irreducible constraints.
'Plastic sexuality,' a concept developed in 1992 by sociologist Anthony Giddens, refers to the malleability of erotic expression in terms of both individual choice and social norms.