Tiresian Analyst
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.181
**CODA**
Theoretical move: The figure of Tiresias—as mythic sex-changer, seer, and patron saint of psychoanalysis—is deployed to argue that the trans experience is structurally instructive for psychoanalysis: it teaches that jouissance rather than biology grounds sexuation, and that the analyst must embody the semblance of objet petit a as the object of transference.
It is not enough that the analyst should support the function of Tiresias. He must also, as Apollinaire tells us, have breasts.