Cavanagh Sheila L
York University, 22 Founders College, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada. E-mail:
Psychoanal Rev. 2018 Jun;105(3):303-327. doi: 10.1521/prev.2018.105.3.303.
The author uses Lacanian psychoanalysis to conceptualize transgender embodiment, focusing on the Lacanian concept "objet a" to analyze how transpeople may be uniquely attuned to a fundamental lack in being endemic to all subjects of language. Objet a is central to the Imaginary register where body images and sex morphology intermingle. The author discusses objet a in relation to the mirror (and the Other's cisgender gaze), anxiety, postsurgical scars, linguistics, and Thing-like feelings of monstrosity (born of transphobia). For those who are transgender, the a may register as an embodied disjunction between gender identity and natal sex assignment.
作者运用拉康精神分析学来对跨性别者的身体表现进行概念化，着重于拉康的“对象a”概念，以分析跨性别者如何可能独特地适应语言所有主体所特有的存在中的根本缺失。对象a在想象界中至关重要，在那里身体形象和性别形态相互交织。作者讨论了对象a与镜子（以及他者的顺性别凝视）、焦虑、手术后的疤痕、语言学以及（由恐跨症产生的）怪物般的物的感觉之间的关系。对于跨性别者而言，对象a可能表现为性别认同与出生时的性别指定之间的身体脱节。
