Plasticity of the Libido
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.178
**BODY TROUBLE** > **Born This Way**
Theoretical move: Gherovici argues that the transgender request is fundamentally structured around the Real of the death drive and the limits of mortal existence, not merely around sex/gender binaries; using Lacan's sinthome, the drive, and the mirror stage, she shows that gender transition is a "new birth" in which art and desire confront the border between life and death.
Freud talks of 'Plastizität' or of 'freie Beweglichkeit der Libido' to refer to a mobility that is confined to an interchangeability of objects and positions… plasticity seems to help the progress of the psychoanalytic cure because it allows for change.