The sex’s choice
XXY | Lucía Puenzo | 2007
Margarita Alvarez Villanueva

Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis, Barcelona, España

Abstract

XXY, is a dramatic film from the Argentinian filmmaker Lucia Puenzo, which is the story of Alex, a teenager of fifteen years old, who is affected by their intersex condition. This paper shows, from the analysis of this film, the issue of sex selection from the perspective of psychoanalysis of the Lacanian orientation, understood as a choice of jouissance.

Keywords: Sex choice | Sexuation | Jouissance | Intersexuality

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La elección del sexo. Un comentario de la película XXY de Lucía Puenzo


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