Plasticity

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Where it appears in the corpus (2)

1. #01

   Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.81

   BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > FOUR LACANIAN TAKES TO RETHINK THE TRANS EXPERIENCE > BEAUTY

   Theoretical move: The passage argues that beauty functions as a sublimatory and aesthetic mechanism through which Schreber negotiates the psychotic foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father and the impossibility of feminine representation, reclaiming Malabou's concept of plasticity as a creative act of self-transformation rather than merely a symptom of delusion. Lacan's reframing of Schreber's experience as "transsexual jouissance" and a "push-towards-Woman" is thereby grounded in an aesthetics of femininity that exceeds the phallic-Oedipal framework.

   Malabou reinterprets plasticity not merely as a static aesthetic ideal but as a dynamic and transformative process... plasticity as the ability to receive form and to give form.

2. #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 introduce the concept of 'plasticity' as it has been considered in theorists ranging from G. W. Hegel to Catherine Malabou, to show that the search for a beautiful body transcending sex and gender... has paved the way for the current staging of the trans moment.