Abstract
Abstract In this article, the author tries to show how the concept of anaclisis forged by Freud and further elaborated by Castoriadis can help to conceive ‘gender’ as a phenomenon between body and imaginary, between bios and nomos or, in Castoriadis’s words, between a ‘first natural stratum’ and ‘imaginary institution’. By analyzing the concept of imagination as related to the body in Castoriadis’s latest text and in an unpublished seminar on psychoanalysis, the article furthermore opens the gaze to the chiasmatic interrelation between body and psyche on the one hand, and between imaginary representation (mise en scène) as well as institution and cultural incorporation on the other. Revisiting the concept of anaclisis as well as its limits should permit a better understanding of the gender-imaginary and its relation to the body.
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