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Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.104
BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > FOUR LACANIAN TAKES TO RETHINK THE TRANS EXPERIENCE > SWERVE
Theoretical move: Gherovici extends Lacan's sinthome theory by reading it through the materialist figure of the *clinamen* (Lucretius's atomic swerve), arguing that both Joyce's art and transgender identity-transformations function as creative re-knotting of the Borromean registers—thereby reframing trans symptoms as potential sinthomes rather than pathologies, and grounding sexual positioning itself (Lacan's "sinthome-he/she") in the irreducible Sexual Non-Relation.
Lacan's conception of the symptom led him to propose that normative heterosexuality can function as a sinthome: sexual positioning itself constitutes a symptom; this is what he called 'sinthome-she' or 'sinthome-he.'