Psychoanalysis Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans*

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Transcending the sex and gender dichotomy, rethinking sexual difference, transgenerational trauma, the decolonization of gender, non-Western identity politics, trans*/feminist debates, embodiment, and queer trans* psychoanalysis, these specially commissioned essays renew our understanding of conventionally held notions of sexual difference. Looking at the intersections between psychoanalysis, feminism, and transgender discourses, these essays think beyond the normative, bi-gender, Oedipal, and phallic premises of classical psychoanalysis while offering new perspectives on gender, sexuality, and sexual difference. From Freud to Lacan, Kristeva, and Laplanche, from misogyny to the #MeToo movement, this collection brings a timely corrective that historicizes our moment and opens up creative debate. Written for professionals, scholars, and students alike, this book will also appeal to psychoanalysts, psychologists, and anyone in the fields of literature, film and media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and social work who wishes to grapple with the theoretical challenges posed by gender, identity, sexual embodiment, and gender politics. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of contributors Introduction PART I: The Genealogy of Sex and Gender 1 Freud’s ménage à quatre 2 Glôssa and “Counter-Will”: The Perverse Tongue of Psychoanalysis 3 The Gender Question from Freud to Lacan 4 Two Analysts Ask, “What Is Genitality?” Ferenczi’s Thalassa and Lacan’s Lamella 5 Undoing the Interpellation of Gender and the Ideologies of Sex PART II: Queering Psychoanalysis: Fantasy, Anthropology, and Libidinal Economy 6 The Role of Phantasy in Representations and Practices of Homosexuality: Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship and Edmund White’s Our Young Man 7 Oscar Wilde: Father and Som 8 Does the Anthropology of Kinship Talk about Sex? 9 From Fundamentalism to Forgiveness: Sex/Gender beyond Determinism or Volunteerism 10 Sexual (In)difference in Late Capitalism: “Freeing Us from Sex” PART III: Being and Becoming Trans[sup(*)] 11 Tiresias and the Other Sexual Difference: Jacques Lacan and Bracha L. Ettinger 12 In-Difference: Feminism and Transgender in the Field of Fantasy 13 Translation, Geschlecht, and Thinking Across: On the Theory of Trans- 14 Scenes of Self-conduct in Contemporary Iran: Transnational Subjectivities Knitted on Site 15 Lacanistas in the Stalls: Urinary Segregation, Transgendered Abjection, and the Queerly Ambulant Dead 16 Becoming Being: Chance, Choice and the Troubles of Trans[sup(*)]cursivity 17 Just Kidding: Valerie Solanas’s SCUM and Andrea Long Chu’s Females 18 Transgender Quarrels and the Unspeakable Whiteness of Psychoanalysis Index