SOURCE: “‘We are Only Seeking Man’: Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Stanislaw Lem's Solaris,” in Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 19, Pt. 2, July, 1992, pp. 167–77.
In the following essay, Helford draws upon Alice Jardine's concept of “gynesis” and the psychoanalytic theory proposed by Jacques Lacan to elucidate metaphorical representations of gender, sexual identity, and psychic alienation in Solaris.
