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Abstract
ABSTRACT This introduction presents the key elements in Laplanche’s theorizing about sexuality. The model focuses on what he has termed “radical alterity,” noting that sexuality is both transactional, arriving from the other and constituting both the unconscious and the lived experience of sexual desire. In this theory, there is space for trauma and normative experiences of forms of desire and excitement arising and arriving from the Other; links to relational theory are suggested and the novelty and importance of considering the clinical, the theoretical, and the cultural from a Laplanchian perspective are introduced.
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Beginning in the final two decades of the 20th century, the study of gender and sexuality has been revived from a variety of directions: the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies have all contributed to renewed fascination with those powerfully formative aspects of subjectivity that fall within the rubric of "gender" and "sexuality." Clinicians, for their part, have returned to gender and sexuality with heightened sensitivity to the role of these constructs in the treatment situation, including the richly variegated ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality enter into our understandings of "normality" and "pathology."