{"product_id":"transgender-psychoanalysis-a-lacanian-perspective-on-sexual-difference-paperback","title":"Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Gherovici\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the author's clinical work with gender-variant patients, \u003ci\u003eTransgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference \u003c\/i\u003eargues for a depathologizing of the transgender experience, while offering an original analysis of sexual difference. We are living in a \"trans\" moment that has become the next civil rights frontier. By　unfixing our notions of gender, sex, and sexual identity, challenging normativity and essentialisms, trans modalities of embodiment can help reorient psychoanalytic practice.　\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book addresses sexual identity and sexuality by articulating new ideas on the complex relationship of the body to the psyche, the precariousness of gender, the instability of the male\/female opposition, identity construction, uncertainties about sexual choice-in short, the conundrum of sexual difference. \u003ci\u003eTransgender Psychoanalysis　\u003c\/i\u003efeatures explications of Lacanian psychoanalysis along with considerations on sex and gender in the form of clinical vignettes from Patricia Gherovici's practice as a psychoanalyst. The book engages with popular culture and psychoanalytic literature (including Jacques Lacan's treatments of two transgender patients), and implements close readings uncovering a new ethics of sexual difference.　\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese explorations have important implications not just for clinicians in psychoanalysis and mental health practitioners but also for transgender theorists and activists, transgender people, and professionals in the trans field. \u003ci\u003eTransgender Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003epromises to enrich ongoing discourses on gender, sexuality, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia Gherovici, Ph.D. \u003c\/strong\u003eis a psychoanalyst and award-winning author. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Puerto Rican Syndrome \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press, 2003, Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize), \u003ci\u003ePlease Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2010), \u003ci\u003eLacan On Madness: Madness, Yes You Can't \u003c\/i\u003e(with Manya Steinkoler, Routledge, 2015), and \u003ci\u003eLacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy \u003c\/i\u003e(with Manya Steinkoler, Cambridge University Press, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356521185529,"sku":"9781138818682","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cU1mdVl2V21SSUEvemM4all5QUNoQT09.webp?v=1769863657","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/transgender-psychoanalysis-a-lacanian-perspective-on-sexual-difference-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}