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  Él no era obviamente cruel. Sonreía. A veces, reía. A veces, te sostenía de una manera que te hacía creer (aunque solo por un instante) que el mundo era seguro. Pero la crueldad no siempre se anuncia con un látigo. A veces seduce. A veces retiene. A veces tortura en silencio—de formas tan sutiles, tan duraderas, que resuenan a lo largo de toda una vida. Esto no es un diario personal—aunque podría serlo. Es un mapa de un tipo de paternidad que ha marcado muchas vidas, incluida la mía: Padres que aman dominando, que gozan engañando, que disfrazan el abuso con encanto y autoridad. El padre perverso ¿Qué es un padre perverso? El término “perverso” suele perderse en la histeria moral y en la caricatura sexualizada. Pero en el psicoanálisis lacaniano, la perversión no trata, en primer lugar, de actos: trata de estructura. Específicamente: una père-version —una configuración psíquica en la que el niño se vuelve hacia el padre no como portador de la ley simbólica ni como narrador...

  He wasn’t obviously cruel. He smiled. Sometimes, he laughed. Sometimes, he held you in a way that made you believe—just for a moment—that the world was safe. But cruelty doesn’t always announce itself with a whip. Sometimes, it seduces. Sometimes, it withholds. Sometimes, it tortures quietly—in ways so subtle, so enduring, they echo through a lifetime. This isn’t a personal diary—though it could be. It’s a map of a kind of fatherhood that has marked many lives, including mine: Fathers who love by dominating, who enjoy through deception, who mask abuse with charm and authority. The perverse father What Is a Perverse Father? The term "perverse" often gets lost in moral panic and sexualized caricature. But in Lacanian psychoanalysis, perversion is not primarily about acts — it is about structure. Specifically: a père-version — a psychic configuration in which the child turns toward the father not as a bearer of symbolic law or a storyteller of limits, but as one ...

  The Woman Does Not Exist: Lacan, Gender, and the Fantasy of Identity In the previous post, we explored Jacques Lacan’s provocative statement: “There is no such thing as a sexual relationship.” We clarified that this doesn’t mean there’s no sex — but that sex, in Lacan’s view, doesn’t guarantee mutual understanding or symbolic unity between partners. Instead, it often reveals a fundamental gap between subjects. In this post, we’ll explore another equally disruptive idea in Lacanian psychoanalysis: “The Woman does not exist.” Let’s be clear: Lacan is not denying the existence of real women. He is not saying women as people don’t exist. Rather, he’s questioning the existence of The Woman — with a capital W — as a stable, universal essence or truth about what it means to be a woman. What Does It Mean to Say "The Woman Does Not Exist"? Lacan’s phrase "La femme n'existe pas" challenges the notion of a singular, coherent idea of womanhood. In psychoanalytic terms...