From my helpless beginning I am acted upon, the text and stage directions of gender are constantly rehearsed into me. I am taught mu part so completely that I begin to believe that it is no longer a play, but is in fact natural. For both Freud and Lacan, the child is at first ignorant of sexual difference and so cannot take up a sexual position "The use of either of these passages in this way is in fact odd and indeed rather comical, for there is a Rabbinical gloss on Genesis 1:27 which … [Read more...]