Polymorphisms

Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-87762-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 461 g

Reihe: IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies

Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.

The chapters consider key topics including the Oedipus-castration complex, the link between sexuality and gender, identity, and gender violence, while also addressing queer/transgender subjectivities, countertransference, and the implicit and explicit theories that shape clinical practice. Taking an intra and interdisciplinary approach, the collection considers ideas that enrich the clinical approach while highlighting contradictions and heterogeneities, and moving away from essentialisms. As a whole, the book delimits debates and questions rather than offering definitive answers, taking the perspective that psychoanalysis is a discipline in continuous interrogation of its own propositions.

Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to academics of psychoanalytic studies and gender studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glocer Fiorini, Leticia

Tauszik, Jean Marc

Acosta, Silvia R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series preface

Leticia Glocer Fiorini

Introduction

Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Jean Marc Tauszikm and Silvia Acosta

PART 1. GENDER AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX – THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXED SUBJECTIVITY

This part includes three chapters which focuses on the contributions and limits of the Oedipus complex regarding sexual and gender diversity.

INTRODUCTION.

Silvia Acosta

CHAPTER 1. Oedipus, subjectivity, and culture.

Hugo Lerner

CHAPTER 2. Oedipus… next! A critique of heteropatriarchal psychoanalysis.

Fernanda Magallanes

CHAPTER 3. The Oedipus complex in the light of contemporary subjectivities: from Thebes to 21st century.

Leticia Glocer Fiorini

PART 2. DIALOGUES AT THE BORDER – THE QUEER POSITION

This part proposes different viewpoints on the queer position and its challenge to the psychoanalytic field.

INTRODUCTION.

Jean Marc Tauszik

CHAPTER 4. Are we perhaps all queer?

Leonardo Peskin

CHAPTER 5. Queering psychoanalysis: from a queer Freud to a trans Lacan

Patricia Gherovici

CHAPTER 6. Trans-identities: epistemological problems, binary logic, and the analyst´s disphoria.

Nicolas Evzonas

PART 3. THE ANALYST DIVERSITY – LISTENING IN THE ANALYTICAL SESSION

This part focuses on the analyst’s position, including countertransference, listening in the session, and the analyst’s own internal diversity.

INTRODUCTION.

Alejandra Vertzner Marucco

CHAPTER 7. Diversity and countertransference.

Cláudio Laks Eizirik

CHAPTER 8. Listening to and enduring the polymorphous.

Yago Franco

CHAPTER 9. Listening to the Rokitansky Syndrome.

Andrea Ikonicoff

PART 4. REVISITING PATRIARCHY – MYTHS AND BELIEFS

This part approaches the role of patriarchy in the construction of subjectivity as well as in the relationship between the sexes. It includes its impact on the construction of theories.

INTRODUCTION.

Analía Wald

CHAPTER 10. Patriarchy revisited through Afro-Brazilian religions.

Alice Becker Lewkowicz

CHAPTER 11. Reviewing patriarchy: myths and beliefs.

Isidoro Vegh

CHAPTER 12. The Tiresias blow or, the use of phallocentric resistance in the analytical field.

Marco Posadas

PART 5. GENDER VIOLENCE – ANGST FACING UNCERTAINTY

In this part different authors refer to gender violence and its meanings, from the individual and collective point of view, regarding sexual difference. A contemporary legal point of view is included.

INTRODUCTION.

Luisa Acrich

CHAPTER 13. "Macha" Violence.

Fernando Orduz

CHAPTER 14. Violence(s) and intolerance to the feminine: between singular and plural scenarios.

Patricia Alkolombre

CHAPTER 15. Violence and difference.

Javier García Castiñeiras

PART 6. IDENTITY, GENDER, AND SUBJECTIVITY

This part presents different thoughts related to the concept of identity in psychoanalysis, including its relation to gender, subjectivity, and sexuality. It also discusses the distinction between identity and difference.

Introduction.

Maria Cristina Fulco

CHAPTER 16. Identity, gender and subjectivity.

Luis Hornstein

CHAPTER 17. Binary or different?

Julio Moreno

CHAPTER 18. Constructing identities – a proposal.

Teresa Lartigue

CHAPTER 19. Metapsychological thoughts on infancy focusing on contemporary identity issues.

Mara Sverdlik

CHAPTER 20. Trans/adolescences – a brief communication.

Sergio Lewkowicz

Über Autor(innen)

Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD, is training and supervising analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA). She is current Chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, and Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires.

Jean Marc Tauszik is a psychoanalyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society and co-chair for Latin America of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee and chair of the PPL platform (Latin American Psychoanalytic Thought).

Silvia R. Acosta, PhD, is a psychoanalyst at the Asociación Psicoanalítica de Cordoba, Argentina, and member of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise, Lisbon. Currently, she is the Scientific Secretary of the Annual Book of Psychoanalysis in Spanish.