Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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Men's magic didn't work. They never returned,
in spite of the stories. The woman does not exist,
says Lacan, who fancies himself an hysteric.
In fact, he goes on to say,
nothing can be said of the woman. Nothing. 3
Nothing Why not asks the young woman
in the front row of the lecture theatre somewhere
in a divided city.
Because, he replies, stretching out his
words to cover the entire history of man,
—for the girl the only organ, or to be more
precise, the only kind of
sexual organ which exists is the phallus.
Really replies the young woman, perplexed.
—in my rose-wet cave, writes Adrienne Rich.
The young woman
has been reading poetry before attending
this lecture. She is puzzled by the
discontinuities of experience.
Lacan goes on,
3 Juliet, Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose (Eds.). 1982. Feminine Sexuality: Jacques
Lacan and the École Freudienne. Macmillan, London. Texts referred to are:
“Introduction - II”, Jacqueline Rose; “Feminine Sexuality in Psychoanalytic
Doctrine”, Jacques Lacan; “A Love Letter”, Jacques Lacan.