O masculino e o feminino: o gênero na psicanálise

Abstract

This paper analyses questions of gender from the point of view of the psychoanalysis. This theme is complex and has not yet been well delimited. It discusses the constitution of the lacking subject, based upon the Freudian concepts of Oedipus complex, castration anguish, masculinity and femininity, activity and passivity and the desire of knowledge. The psychoanalytic ethics is considered and related to the conception of a "subject that desires" in order to understand the masculine and the feminine as different elements that construct the personality, going beyond the social representations that reduces this subject to "man" and "woman".