Abstract:
This article proposes an articulation between the initial works of Judith Butler in the 1990s and the recent book by Clotilde Leguil on the incidences of gender in the constitution of the subject. We begin by tensioning gender in between desire and demand, resorting to Lacanian theory in the 1950s and the 1960s; then, we move towards some of the contributions that Lacanian theory of discourses in the 1970s can offer to this debate. Thus, our aim is to demonstrate that, even when the subject assumes an identification with a master-signifier among those conveyed by the ideals of gender, he/she remains divided and incoherent under this identification, something that attests its unsustainable mastery.
Keywords:
gender; mastery; desire; demand; discourse
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