1st Edition

Polymorphisms Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

“Contemporary psychoanalysts are keen explorers of the new, intrigued by what in some ways is still waiting to be understood; they are well documented and also on average freer of prejudice than other professional categories involved in the field; finally, their research is also often creative. This is demonstrated by this splendid volume ‘Polymorphisms’, which originated as part of the ‘Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee’ of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and which offers a broad, advanced and kaleidoscopic psychoanalytic view on one of the most vibrantly debated topics in today's culture.” - Stefano Bolognini; Past-President IPA

 

“This book, updated and expanded, is a product of the First Latin American Dialogue organized by the IPA's Committee on Sexual Diversity and Gender Studies in November 2019 in Buenos Aires, is a significant contribution to the ongoing debates. It focuses on the psychoanalytic vision of sexual and gender diversity, a topic of utmost importance in the current circumstances. This publication is a key piece, actively engaging us in the necessary debates in these uncertain times.” - Virginia Ungar; IPA Former President (2017-2021)