Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Heterosexual Matrix essential sign Indeed, her account presupposes the primacy of aggression over sexuality, the desire to castrate and take the place of the masculine subject, a desire avowedly rooted in a rivalry, but one which, for her, exhausts itself in the act of displacement But the question might usefully be asked: What sexual fantasy does this aggression serve, and what sexuality does it authorize? Although the right to occupy the position of a language user is the ostensible purpose of the analysand’s aggression, we can ask whether there is not a repudiation of the feminine that prepares this position within speech and which, invariably, reemerges as the Phallic-Other that will phantasmatically confirm the authority of the speaking subject? We might then rethink the very notions of masculinity and femininity constructed here as rooted in unresolved homosexual cathexes The melancholy refusal/domination of homosexuality culminates in the incorporation of the same-sexed object of desire and reemerges in the construction of discrete sexual “natures” that require and institute their opposites through exclusion To presume the primacy of bisexuality or the primary characterization of the libido as masculine is still not to account for the construction of these various “primacies.” Some psychoanalytic accounts would argue that femininity is based in the exclusion of the masculine, where the masculine is one “part” of a bisexual psychic composition The coexistence of the binary is assumed, and then repression and exclusion intercede to craft discretely gendered “identities” out of this binary, with the result that identity is always already inherent in a bisexual disposition that is, through repression, severed into its component parts In a sense, the binary restriction on culture postures as the precultural bisexuality that sunders into heterosexual familiarity through its advent into “culture.” From the start, however, the binary restriction on sexuality shows clearly that culture in no way postdates the bisexuality that it purports to repress: It constitutes the matrix of intelligibility through which primary bisexuality itself becomes thinkable The “bisexuality” that is posited as a psychic foundation and is said to be repressed at a 69