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Gender Trouble or naturalized as gender-specific In other words, some parts of the body become conceivable foci of pleasure precisely because they correspond to a normative ideal of a gender-specific body Pleasures are in some sense determined by the melancholic structure of gender whereby some organs are deadened to pleasure, and others brought to life Which pleasures shall live and which shall die is often a matter of which serve the legitimating practices of identity formation that take place within the matrix of gender norms.42 Transsexuals often claim a radical discontinuity between sexual pleasures and bodily parts.Very often what is wanted in terms of pleasure requires an imaginary participation in body parts, either appendages or orifices, that one might not actually possess, or, similarly, pleasure may require imagining an exaggerated or diminished set of parts.The imaginary status of desire, of course, is not restricted to the transsexual identity; the phantasmatic nature of desire reveals the body not as its ground or cause, but as its occasion and its object The strategy of desire is in part the transfiguration of the desiring body itself Indeed, in order to desire at all it may be necessary to believe in an altered bodily ego43 which, within the gendered rules of the imaginary, might fit the requirements of a body capable of desire This imaginary condition of desire always exceeds the physical body through or on which it works Always already a cultural sign, the body sets limits to the imaginary meanings that it occasions, but is never free of an imaginary construction The fantasized body can never be understood in relation to the body as real; it can only be understood in relation to another culturally instituted fantasy, one which claims the place of the “literal” and the “real.” The limits to the “real” are produced within the naturalized heterosexualization of bodies in which physical facts serve as causes and desires reflect the inexorable effects of that physicality The conflation of desire with the real—that is, the belief that it is parts of the body, the “literal” penis, the “literal” vagina, which cause pleasure and desire—is precisely the kind of literalizing fantasy char90
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