pages 54-60 sex gender in three registers
Pages 81-91 the real 
Pages 95-107 Lacan on gender (sexuation, feminine jouissance)
Pages 115-120 Feminist Critics/Extensions of Lacan (Irigaray, Kristeva, Butler) 
then 3 short excerpts from (post)-Lacanian psychoanalytic feminist theory and film theory, by Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, and Carol Clover. 

REQUIREMENT FOR RESPONSES THIS WK: Please write on aspect of a) Lacan's notion of the Real, b) Lacan's notion of sex/gender, c) at least one French Feminist from below (Irigaray/Cixous), d) at least one English language psychoanalytic feminist from below (Clover). 


RESPONSE QUESTIONS: How does Lacan's notion of the Real function, and why has this notion been so powerful for a variety of theorists? How does this notion function in Lacan in regard to the Imaginary and Symbolic, as well as his account of sex and gender? How do these notions play out in the work of Irigaray, Kristeva, and Cixous? 

Why does Cixous argue that "it is impossible to define a feminine practice of writing," even as she tries to produce this herself? When Cixous says that "women unthink the unifying," do you find this liberating, constraining, wonderful, problematic, or something else entirely? Do you think that it is possible, as with Irigiray, to write in a way which goes beyond unitary truth?

Why does Irigirary argue that culture was founded on an "exchange of women," and why does she link this to notions of language and money as much as gender? Why does she think the "specular image" of women under patriarchy is hom(me)osexual and male?

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