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→Lacan on Sexual Difference
Following [[Freud]], [[Lacan]] also engages with the problem of how the human infant becomes a sexed subject.
For [[Lacan]], masculinity and [[feminityfemininity]] are not [[biological]] essences but symbolic positions, and the assumption of one of these two positions is fundamental to the construction of subjectivity; the [[subject]] is essentially a sexed subject.
"Man" and "woman" are signifiers that stand for these two subjective positions.<ref>{{S20}} p.34</ref>
