Abstract
De la Torre shifts in this chapter from a focus on Lévi-Strauss’s writings on myth and trauma to consider writings on unconscious fantasy and jouissance by Lacanian thinkers Willy Apollon, Lucie Cantin, and Juliet Flower MacCannell. Beginning with a rereading of Lacan’s formulas of sexuation, de la Torre proceeds to link Lacan’s writing of the impossible real that sex “is” to Apollon’s account of sexual difference, where femininity and masculinity appear not only as distinct logics but also as ethical exigencies at stake for all subjects.
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de la Torre, S. (2018). Sex for Structuralists: From Myth to Fantasy. In: Sex for Structuralists. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92895-1_6
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