ABSTRACT
This work proposes a re-reading of the Freudian article of 1925 named ‘Some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes’, following the path opened by Lacan with his theory of sexuation. In Freud’s text, there seems to be an implicit temporal proposition about the assumption of the sexed position, which leads to an Oedipal schematism that does not always account for the singularity of sexuation beyond its normative arrangements. Thus, we raise the question: can the sophism of the three prisoners - by the differential introduction of the time for ‘seeing’, ‘understanding’, and ‘concluding’ - help us to deliver a non-normative reading of the body in the process of sexuation? Branching out this question, we will discuss the importance of maintaining, with Lacan, an acute and precise differentiation between the phallus and the penis and between sexual difference and the anatomical distinction between the sexes. Finally, we conclude by pointing to the limits of the Oedipal norm to predict or determine what will be made of the subject, since, by considering the Other as barred - and not a complete system of domination -, a space of contingency is opened, revealing for each one the unconscious choice of their sexed position.
Keywords:
Sexuation; contingency; phallus.