Transpsychoanalytics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822370956 ISBN 13: 9780822370956

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2017

Synopsis

While psychoanalysis has traditionally been at odds with transgender issues, a growing body of revisionist psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice has begun to tease out the trans-affirming potential of the field. This issue features essays that highlight this potential by simultaneously critiquing and working within the boundaries of psychoanalytic concepts and theories guiding clinical work. Featuring a range of clinicians and scholars, this issue centers on questions pertaining to trans* experience, desire, difference, otherness, identification, loss, mourning, and embodiment. The contributors explore these questions through topics like bathroom bans, ethics, popular culture, and the Freudian couch. By setting up this dialogue between psychosocial studies and trans* cultural studies, this revisionist work may radically transform psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Contributors. Sheila L. Cavanagh, Chris Coffman, Elena Dalla Torre, Kate Foord, Patricia Gherovici, Oren Gozlan, Griffin Hansbury, Jordon Osserman, Amy Ray Stewart, Simon van der Weele

About this title

About the Author

Sheila L. Cavanagh is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University and coeditor of Somatechnics journal. She is author of Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination and Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies and coeditor of Skin, Culture, and Psychoanalysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822370956
• ISBN 13: 9780822370956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Cavanagh Sheila L.