El canto de los sirenos

For more than a decade, Mary Nicotra has investigated the trans question through the prism of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Through a series of particular cases, in this incisive essay she poses a first question: is there only one way to call yourself trans, gay, bisexual, woman or man? And from here, she poses a new question: how to deal with sexuality in general and transsexuality in particular?. Jacques Lacan already pointed out that the biological and gender classifications received at birth do not prevent the individual from making a later choice. And that choice, made by the subject of the unconscious, is far from being fixed and definitive, since the acceptance of new knowledge is the passage to a new experience in which options are given that had not been considered before. This book aims to capture that there are many ways of being in the world and they do not have their origin in biology or in the cultural context, but in the logic of each person's discourse.