On Female Obsessional Neurosis

Abstract

What is the obsessional neurosis as such is not an easy question, because even the most characteristic symptom such as the ritual or the OCD, as it is called nowadays, belongs to the most different personalities. Lacan used the structural model because there is no symptom that would characterize one structure or clinical type. The diagnosis is based on the coherence of the whole that corresponds to the way a speaking being arranges impossibility: the impossible unification of the living substance of the body and of the subject represented by the signifier.This can be arranged in two ways, psychotic and neurotic. A neurotic, male or female, is someone who wagers on the Other. And neurotic types are different ways of reacting to the discontent provoked by the fact that the Other can be misleading.The obsessional subject wants a world that holds together without any hole, for one single hole can ruin the whole edifice. But obsessional neurosis does not consist only of control but also of symptoms that signal the failure of control.The second part of the question is the sexual differentiation of obsessional neurosis. Lacan left a place for something that, in women, does not derive from this phallic logic. However, even if we can speak of obsession in women, we cannot speak of female obsession. A case will show why here is no other obsession than the one of the phallus, erected in the stiff eternity.Are there more obsessional women as before? And what are the consequences of contemporary discourse that does not leave any place to the signifier of difference, the phallic signifier? Today we live the reign of transparency and of political correctness. This is why male, as well as female obsessional neurosis appears as an unwilling remainder of the fact that it is impossible to sign a contract with enjoyment.

Keywords:

• Contemporary discourse Keyword: Contemporary discourse
• Enjoyement Keyword: Enjoyement
• Neurosis Keyword: Neurosis
• other Keyword: other
• psychosis Keyword: psychosis

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