The feminine, the analyst and the child theorist

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Avgi Saketopoulou for her judicious comments and suggestions on many aspects of this paper. Thank you also to Jane V. Kite for helping with the linguistic revision.

Notes

1 Due to time and space limits I had to leave out many significant contributions.

2 Except in cases of peculiar, closed subcultures and family systems, such as sects, for instance.

3 Given such absence of a code, I prefer to speak of transduction rather than translation.

4 It could be said that what cannot be erased is the “/” (slash) in “male/female,” i.e. the marker of difference itself.

5 Oxford English Dictionary online, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/138492.