The Ends of an Idiom, or Sexual Difference in Translation
The Ends of an Idiom, or Sexual Difference in Translation
Chapter Four deals with the different uses and meanings of the notion of “sexual difference” in the Francophone and Anglophone worlds, ever since the notion was elevated to the status of a quasi-concept by psychoanalysis. Looking at the pluralization of its uses and the queering of its meaning in North-American gender and queer theory, the author reflects on the travels and travails of translation across the Atlantic. Such a necessarily unending movement prevents any firm and lasting conceptual construction.
Keywords: sexual diffference(s), translation, idiom, psychoanalysis, perversion, Freud, Cixous, Derrida, Rubin, Butler
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