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→Normalizing Effect
In other words, the assumption of castration has a 'normalising effect'.
This normalising effect is to be understood in terms of both [[psychopathologpsychopathology]]y (clinical structures and symptoms) and [[sexual identity]].
====Castration and Clinical Structures====
It is only by assuming castration (in both senses) that the subject can take up a sexual position as a man or a woman (see [[sexual difference]].
The different modalities of refusing castration find expression in the various forms of [[perversion]].
==See Also==
