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Gender, Identifications, and Identities: Dialogues at the Edges book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Identifications, and Identities Dialogues at the Edges

Edited By Frances Thomson-Salo, Luca Bruno, Eva Reichelt Copyright 2026
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge
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Gender, Identifications, and Identities considers the increasing visibility of sexual and gender diversity and reflects on how this is felt within psychoanalysis. The international contributors focus on identifications, gender, and identity, including gender and sexuality in psychic development, as well as the link between identifications, body, and gender. The book also considers how gender... Read more

Acknowledgements

Contributors and editors

Series Preface by Leticia Glocer Fiorini

Introduction by Luca Bruno, Eva Reichelt, and Frances Thomson-Salo

PART I Gender and sexuality in psychic development

Introduction

SIMONETTA BONFIGLIO

1 Sexuality and gender in development: Facets of bedrock and beyond

PAUL LYNCH

2 Neosexualities and gender identity: Is there a psychic place where they originate?

PAOLA MARION

3 An approach to contemporary subjectivities: Identifications, gender, and sexual difference

LETICIA GLOCER FIORINI

PART II Identifications, body, and gender

Introduction

SIRI ERIKA GULLESTAD

4 Body, sexuality, gender: Between identificatory project and desire

TIZIANA BASTIANINI

5 Trans-identifications

LUCA BRUNO

6 Gender identities and identifications in a changing world

VITTORIO LINGIARDI

7 Reclaiming psychic bisexuality: Revisiting Winnicott’s "The Split-off Male and Female Elements to be Found Clinically in Men and Women" (1966)

ANAT SCHUMANN

PART III Gender fluidity: A challenge for approaching the coexistence of different states of the self

Introduction

LUISA MARINO-COE

8 Tolerating uncertainty. On reading Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon

EVA REICHELT

9 Gender fluidity: White holes in psychoanalytic theory?

MAURO MANICA

10 Gender in movement: The emergent versus the continuous

DANA AMIR

11 Rethinking sexual and gender diversity: Some psychoanalytic reflections

LAURA BALOTTIN AND DAVIDE BRUNO

Index

Biography

Frances Thomson-Salo, Ph.D., is a training adult and child psychoanalyst and the European co-chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee.

Luca Bruno, Ph.D, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in Milan. He is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and the IPA European Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

Eva Reichelt is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Berlin. She is a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the IPA European Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

“In this highly topical book, renowned psychoanalytical experts present their knowledge and clinical experiences of the connections between body, mental development, sexuality, (fluid) gender, identifications and identities from different perspectives in a fascinating new way.” - Heribert Blass, the incoming IPA president

 

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