Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning

2014-08-13 Psychology

Author : Oren Gozlan
Release : 2014-08-13
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning written by Oren Gozlan. This book was released on 2014-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) Book Prize for 2015 Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian approach presents a startling new way to consider psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender through the meeting of arts and the clinic. Informed by a Lacanian perspective that locates transsexuality in the intermediate space between the clinic and culture, Oren Gozlan joins current conversations around the question of sexual difference with the insistence that identity never fully expresses sexuality and, as such, cannot be replaced by gender. The book goes beyond the idea of gender as an experience that gives rise to multiple identities and instead considers identity as split from the outset. This view transforms transsexuality into a particular psychic position, able to encounter the paradoxes of transitional experience and the valence of phantasy and affect that accompany aesthetic conflicts over the nature of beauty and being. Gozlan brings readers into the enigmatic qualities of representation as desire for completion and transformation through notions of tension, difference and aesthetics through examining the artwork of Anish Kapoor and Louise Bourgeois and the role played by confusion in the aesthetics of transformation in literature and memoir. Each chapter of the book presents a productive take on understanding the psychoanalytic demand to sustain and consider the dilemma that the unconscious presents to the knowledge and recognition of gender. Fundamentally, this work understands transsexuality as a creative act, rich with desire and danger, in which thinking of the transsexual body as both an analytic and a subjective object helps us to reveal the creativity of sexuality. Ideal for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers as well as students of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, literature studies and philosophy, Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning offers a unique insight into psychoanalytic approaches to transsexuality and the question of assuming a position in gender.

Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies

2018-03-13 Psychology

Author : Oren Gozlan
Release : 2018-03-13
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies written by Oren Gozlan. This book was released on 2018-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies introduces new thinking on non-conforming gender representation, addressing transsexuality as a subjective experience that highlights universal dilemmas related to how we conceive identity and exploring universal questions related to gender: its objects, objections, and obstacles. This book seeks to disassemble prejudicial orientations to the challenges and the everydayness of transsexuality and build new understanding and responses to issues including: medical biases, the problem of authenticity, and the agency of the child. Oren Gozlen leads an examination of three central pressures: transformation of a medical model, the social experience of becoming transgender, and the question of self-representation through popular culture. The chapters reframe several contemporary dilemmas, such as: authenticity, pathology, normativity, creativity, the place of the clinic as a problem of authority, the unpredictability of sexuality, the struggle with limits of knowledge, a demand for intelligibility and desire for certainty. The contributors consider sociocultural, theoretical, therapeutic, and legal approaches to transsexuality that reveal its inherent instability and fluidity both as concept and as experience. They place transsexuality in tension and transition as a concept, as a subject position, and as a subjectivity. The book also reflects the way in which political and cultural change affects self and other representations of the transsexual person and their others, asking: how does the subject metabolize the anxieties that relate to these transformations and facilitations? How can the subject respond in contexts of hostility and prohibition? Offering a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration, Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapist as well as psychologists and scholars of gender studies, cultural studies and sociology.

On Transits and Transitions

2013

Author : Tristan Josephson
Release : 2013
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Download or read book On Transits and Transitions written by Tristan Josephson. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Transits and Transitions: Mobility, Displacement, and Trans Subjectivity in the United States" maps how relations of im/mobility and displacement position trans subjects in relation to constructions of U.S. citizenship and national subjectivity in the contemporary United States. Drawing on the insights of transnational feminist cultural studies, queer and trans theory, and critical legal studies, the dissertation looks to the law as a site for the production of the category of "transgender" and examines how different areas of the law manage trans migrants as populations to be included or excluded from the U.S. nation-state. I focus on three key areas of law and policy - asylum law, marriage law, and immigration detention policies - to show how these areas collaborate to define, regulate, and distribute conditional and limited forms of recognition for trans migrants, while also attending to the transnational circuits of neoliberal capital and knowledge that constitute trans subjects. I engage the question of mobility by interrogating the ways that the state institutions regulate not just trans bodies and identities but also the processes of transition. This approach allows me to map the unevenness of recognition for trans subjects across social, cultural, and legal determinations and to show how freedom for some trans subjects is founded on the unfreedom of other trans subjects. I argue that the recognition of trans migrants as legible and illegible in these areas of the law is specific but not exceptional to trans subjects. That is, the management of trans migrants is integral to how U.S. state institutions manage gender, sexuality, and racialized populations simultaneously, and therefore illustrates how citizenship and national belonging in the United States are premised on narrow and restrictive categories that affect all subjects, not just those who are transgender. In the process, my project challenges juridical understandings of citizenship by showing how the law depends on and perpetrates normative cultural categories of sex, gender, race, and nation.

Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology

2014-01-31 Psychology

Author : Thomas Teo
Release : 2014-01-31
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology written by Thomas Teo. This book was released on 2014-01-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology is a comprehensive reference work and is the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view. Thus, it will appeal to all committed to a critical approach across the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for alternative analyses of psychological events, processes, and practices. The Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology provides commentary from expert critical psychologists from around the globe who will compose the entries. The Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology will feature approximately 1,000 invited entries, organized in an easy to use A-Z format. The encyclopedia will be compiled under the direction of the editor who has published widely in the field of critical psychology and due to his international involvements is knowledgeable about the status of critical psychology around the world. The expert contributors will summarize current critical-psychological knowledge and discuss significant topics from a global perspective.

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