Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism

ISBN-13: 9780415806169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 316 str.

Patricia Gherovici

Opis

Utilizing rich clinical vignettes and elements of Lacanian theory, Patricia Gherovici demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframed debates about gender in American society at large.

Spis treści

Introduction. The Imperative of Choice. The Democratizing of Transgenderism. Genealogy of Hysteria. Freud's Sex Change. Falling into Sex Like Falling in Love. Gender and Sex as Performance. Boy Girl Boy. Lacan's Transsexuals. Hysteria and Transsexualism. Writing the Sinthome: The Transsexual Body as a Written Body. Conclusion.

O autorze

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D., is an analyst in private practice and founding member and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar. She has published in numerous journals and collections, including the foreword to Erotic Anger: A User's Manual (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and, most recently, The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003), winner of the Gradiva Award and the 2004 Boyer Prize.