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Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2009) 14, 16–23. doi:10.1057/pcs.2008.42

Them without us: The ultimate in sexual politics

Todd McGowana

aDepartment of English, 400 Old Mill, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA. E-mail: tmcgowan@uvm.edu

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Abstract

Lacan's understanding of feminine sexuation provides a way of reformulating the us/them or friend/enemy without losing the sense of antagonism that this distinction provides.

Keywords:

Jacques Lacan, sexual difference, phallus, Carl Schmitt, loss

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