{"id":1321,"date":"2008-12-17T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2009-03-12T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:18:50","slug":"gender-refuses-a-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/12\/17\/gender-refuses-a-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender refuses a loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JB, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gender Trouble<\/span>. 1990. page 60.<\/p>\n<p>Boys repudiation of the mother is the founding moment of what Freud calls gender &#8220;consolidation&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Forfeiting the mother as object of desire, the boy either internalizes the loss through identification with her, or displaces his heterosexual attachment, in which  case he fortifies his attachment to his father and thereby &#8220;consolidates&#8221; his masculinity.  As the metaphor of consolidation suggests, there are clearly bits and pieces of masculinity to be found within the psychic landscape, dispositions, sexual trends, and aims, but they are diffuse and disorganized, unbounded by the exclusivity of a heterosexual object choice.  Indeed, if the boy renounces both aim and object and, therefore, heterosexual cathexis altogether, he internalizes the mother and sets up a feminine superego which dissolves and disorganizes masculinity, consolidating feminine libidinal dispositions in its place (60).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gender as an identity refusal of a loss (the maternal body) that encrypts itself in the body<\/p>\n<p>antimetaphorical activity, incorporation LITERALIZES the loss ON or IN the body and so appears as the facticity of the body, the means by which the body comes to bear &#8220;sex&#8221; as its literal truth (68).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JB, Gender Trouble. 1990. page 60. Boys repudiation of the mother is the founding moment of what Freud calls gender &#8220;consolidation&#8221; Forfeiting the mother as object of desire, the boy either internalizes the loss through identification with her, or displaces his heterosexual attachment, in which case he fortifies his attachment to his father and thereby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/12\/17\/gender-refuses-a-loss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gender refuses a loss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,86,87,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-gender","category-incest","category-sexual-difference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}