forthcoming: Cathy Lebowitz interviews Josefina Ayerza on Catherine Millet's La vie sexuelle de Catherine M.
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Josefina: The man enjoys a piece of a woman's body Cathy: does it go both ways? J: well with the woman it is a bit different... C: what does she enjoy? J: she enjoys the piece [...] C: What do you mean Catherine M is all about phallic jouissance. Because the men can't see her head in the car?
J: The case with phallic jouisance is that man does not enjoy
the body of the woman, rather he enjoys the jouissance of his organ.
And there are phallic women. Another trait with regard to phallic
jouissance is the fantasy that consorts with the act. C: Also I want to ask about the fantasy she mentions. Is there a psychoanalytic interpretation of the woman who imagines a body part (her ass) being offered to many men. J: Women know men are fond of looking, touching body parts... so it's not unlikely that they expose them, even offer them. The particularity with C.M. is the brink of detachment that the curtain implies - cuts her ass out. And in this, the quality of the organ - outside - masculinizes (makes it the phallus?), it certainly takes in the structure of a fetish. C: Maybe it is a common fantasy, but many women do not act it out. Also why would she imagine them stamping their feet and heckling. Isn't heckling usually a disrespect. Does she like them being so excited by her offering? J: She is the goddess. Their over excitement confirms the sacred with regard to her behind - a fetish. [...]
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