GENDER

Neither Man nor Woman? Psychoanalysis and the New Faces of Gender

For centuries, gender identity was regarded as self-evident. To be a man or a woman seemed obvious. Biological sex was expected to dictate one’s role, tastes, gestures, clothing, and even destiny. One was born a girl or a boy, and society vigilantly preserved this division. Early psychoanalysis did not escape this binary logic. Freud himself ...

The Body as Legacy: Building Sexual Identity

Human sexuality is a journey. It doesn’t suddenly surface at adolescence or with a first sexual experience. It develops from birth, woven over time through sensations, taboos, fantasies, emotional attachments and inner conflicts. The libido, understood as the energy of desire, begins to form in early childhood, gradually finding shape, ...

Ten MPs Adopt a Proposal for Gender Equality Quotas

For the upcoming municipal elections scheduled for May 2024, a proposal to adopt gender equality quotas might be implemented. Put forth by the association Fifty-Fifty, the bill advocating for gender quotas — in favor of women — in municipal elections has been adopted by five Lebanese political parties. It will undergo further review in ...