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Transgender psychoanalysis : a Lacanian perspective on sexual difference /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gherovici, Patricia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2017.
Subjects:
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981.
Transgender people.
Sex (Psychology)
Sexology.
Psychoanalysis.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Transamerica
  • Depathologizing trans
  • Gender in the blender
  • Bring sex back
  • Strange bedfellows: psychoanalysis and sexology
  • Changing sex, changing psychoanalysis
  • A natural experiment
  • From trance to trans in Lacan's revisions of hysteria
  • Simulation, expression, and truth
  • The sweet science of transition
  • The singular universality of trans
  • Portraits in a two-way mirror
  • Plastic sex, the beauty of it
  • That obscure object : from beauty to excrement
  • Freud's scatalog
  • The art of artifice
  • Clinic of the clinamen
  • Making life livable
  • Body trouble
  • Coda: phallus interruptus, or the snakes' lesson.