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The psychoanalytic body, examined at the juncture of psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism, is ripe for rethinking. Its classic theoretical services, as the raw material of desire and the fount of epistemic certainty, being no longer required, it has, with postmodernism's linguistic turn, morphed into text, process, construction. How convenient for the clinician's traffic in the Symbolic, a practice that nevertheless can uniquely assess if not yet remedy two linked problems central to the postmodern solution: the consignment of the body to the Real and of the self to the Imaginary.