Realness
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Where it appears in the corpus (3)
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#01
Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.39
BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > FOUR LACANIAN TAKES TO RETHINK THE TRANS EXPERIENCE
Theoretical move: Gherovici proposes four new clinical concepts—realness, beauty, laughter, and the swerve/clinamen—as expansions of Lacan's four fundamental concepts, arguing that trans experience stages not a crossing of gender boundaries but a confrontation with death that opens onto life, and that this framework reconceptualises the Real as bodily plasticity intertwined with the death drive.
realness is often used by trans persons to describe the authenticity of their gender performance for it is a supreme truth beyond any verification.
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#02
Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.73
BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > FOUR LACANIAN TAKES TO RETHINK THE TRANS EXPERIENCE > BEING REAL
Theoretical move: The passage argues that "realness"—as experienced clinically and in trans testimony—occupies a liminal space between Lacan's Real and ordinary reality, and proposes that deception, the veil of the phallus, and metonymic displacement of the objet a are constitutive of truth rather than opposed to it; psychoanalysis can learn from the trans concept of realness a more capacious understanding of the arc between the reality principle and fullness of being.
Reading clinical examples alongside Mock's testimony in Redefining Realness invites a nuanced understanding of 'realness'—one that resists easy reduction to either Lacan's Real or the familiar contours of reality.
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#03
Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.128
BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > Forthcoming by Everyday Analysis
Theoretical move: This is a publisher's blurb/back-matter passage describing the contents of Gherovici's pamphlet and the Everyday Analysis series; it is non-substantive promotional text with minimal theoretical development.
four Lacanian concepts to understand and relate to the transgender experience: realness, plasticity, nothingness and the clinamen