The Queerness of Psychoanalysis From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond

Introduction  

Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi, and Myriam Sauer 

1. Gird your Loins: The Transgender Psychoanalysts are Coming  

Tobias Wiggins 

2. On the Cage of Gender: Perspectives on an Ethics of Sexual Différance  

Esther Hutfless

3. Emptiness is the Cure for Psychoanalysis  

Myriam Sauer

4. Tiresias as the Patron Saint of Psychoanalysis: On the Integral Mutations of Psychoanalysis  

Simone A. Medina Polo

5. H.D. & Bryher: Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and Gender  

Elisabeth Punzi

6. Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance  

M.E. O’Brien

7. Transsexuality at the Origin of Desire: Or, Schreber’s Satanic Handjob  

Luce deLire

8. Sissy Dance $1: The More and More of Gender  

Griffin Hansbury and Avgi Saketopoulou

9. Dragging Psychoanalysis  

Geoffrey Hervey and Lara Sheehi

10. Erotophobia: Or, Isn’t Everyone A Pervert?  

Gila Ashtor

11. Freud Would Not Be Queer Without Us: An Autotheory on Psychoanalysis as Queer Praxis  

Molly Merson

12. Credo: So Our Lives Glide On  

Ken Corbett

Biography

Vanessa Sinclair is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. She is the host of Rendering Unconscious Podcast and a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. She sits on the International Advisory Board of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and is an Editorial Advisor for Parapraxis magazine. Dr. Sinclair is the author of Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and the editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023) and On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Manya Steinkoler.

Elisabeth Punzi is a licensed psychologist and a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Gothenburg University, Sweden. She leads a project concerning heritage and health at the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University and teaches psychoanalytic theory, psychology of religion, qualitative research methods, and many other topics.

Myriam Sauer is a PhD candidate at the Latin-America Institute of Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, as well as a writer and poet. Her primary academic interests lie in the fields of psychoanalysis, queer studies, literature, and sociology.

'Here is a book whose authors immerse themselves in the histories and discourses of psychoanalysis and the forces of cultural and political ideologies to offer reflective and critical analyses of the psychoanalytic “treatment” of queerness. These insightful and at times provocative essays reflect on the quotidian aspects of queer lived lives, the fragilities of the contemporary era, and how they can meaningfully interact with a discipline of psychoanalysis fit for the 21st century.'

Eve Watson, Psychoanalyst and Writer, Dublin     

'Psychoanalysis will be queer or it will not be. Against dismissals of psychoanalysis as outdated, biased, patriarchal, heterosexist, transphobic, racist, colonial, and bourgeois, every essay in this book challenges prejudice, debunking myths and assumptions about psychoanalysis while reorienting it brilliantly.'

Patricia Gherovici, Psychoanalyst and Author of Transgender Psychoanalysis, Philadelphia

'The Queerness in Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond is a collection of papers that works to provoke, deepen and broaden our psychoanalytic thinking, to take seriously the views of queer subjects, scholarship, psychoanalysts and philosophers. These papers pushed me to learn psychoanalytic and philosophical ideas and schools of thought beyond the limits of my training and exposure. The interdisciplinary scope of the collection offers a unique challenge to curious, expansive readers of psychoanalysis. Raising the voices of queer, trans and gender non-binary people is a welcomed gift and urgent necessity for psychoanalysis at a time when the field still clings to views that pathologize and devalue queer people and seek to marginalize and exclude our input.'

Jack Pula, MD, New York