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Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2017
ABSTRACT In her paper “To Suffer Pleasure: The Shattering of the Ego as Psychic Labor of Perverse... more ABSTRACT In her paper “To Suffer Pleasure: The Shattering of the Ego as Psychic Labor of Perverse Sexuality,” published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Volume 15, Number 4, Saketopoulou proposes an alternative interpretation of perversion that allows the analyst to recognize perversity’s “productive potential” (Saketopoulou, 2014, p. 255). In this paper I offer a close reading of Saketapoulou’s essay to address 3 contentious issues in her arguments: (a) the author’s proposed definition of perversion and its relationship with the concept of polymorphous perversity, (b) the potential of transgressive sexuality to “shatter” the ego, and (c) the status of the analytic dyad in the case itself and beyond. As I attempt to demonstrate, Saketopoulou’s legitimate and necessary call to move away from dogmatic, pathologizing, and dismissive approaches to perversity requires an even more radical reinterpretation of both the concept of perversion and of what it means to listen analytically to “perverse sexual scripts” (Saketopoulou, p. 257).
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2016
ABSTRACT A controversy over the admission of transmen into an all-women’s college featured in a r... more ABSTRACT A controversy over the admission of transmen into an all-women’s college featured in a recent article in The New York Times, “When Women Become Men at Wellesley” (Padawer, 2014), captures the ways in which transsexuality orients discussions of identity, sociality, at-homeness, and modes of gender self-fashioning. The presence of transmen in an all-women’s college also incites debates over the history of the school’s identity and the challenges of colleges in transition. Rather than entering the debate of whether transmen should or should not be allowed into the college, my articlearticle addresses the terms of this debate through its arguments over the conceptualization of gender. Whereas transmen at Wellesley College bring to the fore social implications, my discussion approaches conflictive orientations to gender through a psychoanalytic lens with special attention to the fantasy structure of gender. Working with Freud’s (1919) idea of the uncanny, the essay explores the question, How may the presence of transmen in an all-women’s college be thought of as opening an emotional experience and as signifying for the college a transitional time between adolescence and adulthood? Is there something about a segregated community that is desirable for transitioning? In the case of an all-women’s school that carries a historical legacy involving a number of transformations regarding how we approach questions of race, gender, desegregation, and the recognition of the struggle of lesbians, the article argues that the transmen’s request to belong at the college is the college’s historical legacy. The article concludes with the old question that Freud asked about women: What does the transman want?
The Psychoanalytic Review, 2008
International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2011
... from Finland (Maarit Arppo), Germany (Michael Buchholz), Italy (Carlo Bonomi and Franco Borgo... more ... from Finland (Maarit Arppo), Germany (Michael Buchholz), Italy (Carlo Bonomi and Franco Borgogno), Italy/Germany (Marco Conci), Norway (Per ... Trauma and deprivation: The relationship between early object relations and the constitution of a sense of self. Thomas was borne ...
International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2011
Abstract This paper considers questions of gender integration in transsexuality. While, historica... more Abstract This paper considers questions of gender integration in transsexuality. While, historically, the medical/clinical establishment has treated the transsexual's desire for surgery as a hysterical demand, I develop the view, with the Lacanian theories of Gherovici and Verhaeghe, that transsexual surgery may signify a means to traverse phantasy and claim one's desire. This formulation depends on Lacan's notion of “the Act.” Along with presenting clinical material, the paper asks: is it useful to think about hysteria while trying ...
Journal of European Psychoanalysis, 2010
Summary: This paper focuses on the question of gender oscillation in a patient who describes diss... more Summary: This paper focuses on the question of gender oscillation in a patient who describes dissatisfaction in being embodied in either gender. The theory offered in this paper tries to touch on related but inherently disjointed aspects of sexuality and human existence such as time, difference and creativity. I will draw on the works of Winnicott, Kristeva, and Verhaeghe to posit different ways to think about the representation of oscillation as a problem of difference, jouissance and prohibition. The case will be used to ...
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2021
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2021
In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on th... more In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on the subject of transgender young people, with four psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers. The conversation draws on short essays submitted in this section of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child as a springboard for discussion. It has been transcribed and edited for length and clarity, and is reproduced here. Questions explored include the differences surrounding gender identity in childhood versus adulthood, the use of medical interventions for children experiencing gender dysphoria, the tension between psychoanalytic neutrality and affirmation, and the ethical stakes of working in this field.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on th... more In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on the subject of transgender young people, with four psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers. The conversation draws on short essays submitted in this section of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child as a springboard for discussion. It has been transcribed and edited for length and clarity, and is reproduced here. Questions explored include the differences surrounding gender identity in childhood versus adulthood, the use of medical interventions for children experiencing gender dysphoria, the tension between psychoanalytic neutrality and affirmation, and the ethical stakes of working in this field.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies
Psychoanalytic review, 2018
This paper examines current psychoanalytic engagements with the use of hormone blockers in transs... more This paper examines current psychoanalytic engagements with the use of hormone blockers in transsexual children and the underlying premises concerning our understanding of the child's process of coming into his or her gendered self. Rather than taking sides in the debate, I explore how the "hormones question" becomes entangled in a series of misreadings and displacements through which the child's request could potentially be missed. In examining psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the trans child's agency, autonomy, and future and the relation between the natal body and gender, I ask, how is psychoanalytic discourse implicated in the very dilemmas it attempts to elucidate? Specifically, the essay examines critically the psychoanalytic use of continuity, authenticity, and alignment as implicit ideals, interrogates the focus on mourning as therapeutic horizon, and proposes that we conceive of gender as a good-enough placeholder with the potential to carry us fro...
In her paper “To Suffer Pleasure: The Shattering of the Ego as Psychic Labor of Perverse Sexualit... more In her paper “To Suffer Pleasure: The Shattering of the Ego as Psychic Labor of Perverse Sexuality,” published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Volume 15, Number 4, Saketopoulou proposes an alternative interpretation of perversion that allows the analyst to recognize perversity’s “productive potential” (Saketopoulou, 2014, p. 255). In this paper I offer a close reading of Saketapoulou’s essay to address 3 contentious issues in her arguments: (a) the author’s proposed definition of perversion and its relationship with the concept of polymorphous perversity, (b) the potential of transgressive sexuality to “shatter” the ego, and (c) the status of the analytic dyad in the case itself and beyond. As I attempt to demonstrate, Saketopoulou’s legitimate and necessary call to move away from dogmatic, pathologizing, and dismissive approaches to perversity requires an even more radical reinterpretation of both the concept of perversion and of what it means to listen analytically to “pervers...
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2017
ABSTRACT In her paper “To Suffer Pleasure: The Shattering of the Ego as Psychic Labor of Perverse... more ABSTRACT In her paper “To Suffer Pleasure: The Shattering of the Ego as Psychic Labor of Perverse Sexuality,” published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Volume 15, Number 4, Saketopoulou proposes an alternative interpretation of perversion that allows the analyst to recognize perversity’s “productive potential” (Saketopoulou, 2014, p. 255). In this paper I offer a close reading of Saketapoulou’s essay to address 3 contentious issues in her arguments: (a) the author’s proposed definition of perversion and its relationship with the concept of polymorphous perversity, (b) the potential of transgressive sexuality to “shatter” the ego, and (c) the status of the analytic dyad in the case itself and beyond. As I attempt to demonstrate, Saketopoulou’s legitimate and necessary call to move away from dogmatic, pathologizing, and dismissive approaches to perversity requires an even more radical reinterpretation of both the concept of perversion and of what it means to listen analytically to “perverse sexual scripts” (Saketopoulou, p. 257).
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2016
ABSTRACT A controversy over the admission of transmen into an all-women’s college featured in a r... more ABSTRACT A controversy over the admission of transmen into an all-women’s college featured in a recent article in The New York Times, “When Women Become Men at Wellesley” (Padawer, 2014), captures the ways in which transsexuality orients discussions of identity, sociality, at-homeness, and modes of gender self-fashioning. The presence of transmen in an all-women’s college also incites debates over the history of the school’s identity and the challenges of colleges in transition. Rather than entering the debate of whether transmen should or should not be allowed into the college, my articlearticle addresses the terms of this debate through its arguments over the conceptualization of gender. Whereas transmen at Wellesley College bring to the fore social implications, my discussion approaches conflictive orientations to gender through a psychoanalytic lens with special attention to the fantasy structure of gender. Working with Freud’s (1919) idea of the uncanny, the essay explores the question, How may the presence of transmen in an all-women’s college be thought of as opening an emotional experience and as signifying for the college a transitional time between adolescence and adulthood? Is there something about a segregated community that is desirable for transitioning? In the case of an all-women’s school that carries a historical legacy involving a number of transformations regarding how we approach questions of race, gender, desegregation, and the recognition of the struggle of lesbians, the article argues that the transmen’s request to belong at the college is the college’s historical legacy. The article concludes with the old question that Freud asked about women: What does the transman want?
The Psychoanalytic Review, 2008
International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2011
... from Finland (Maarit Arppo), Germany (Michael Buchholz), Italy (Carlo Bonomi and Franco Borgo... more ... from Finland (Maarit Arppo), Germany (Michael Buchholz), Italy (Carlo Bonomi and Franco Borgogno), Italy/Germany (Marco Conci), Norway (Per ... Trauma and deprivation: The relationship between early object relations and the constitution of a sense of self. Thomas was borne ...
International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2011
Abstract This paper considers questions of gender integration in transsexuality. While, historica... more Abstract This paper considers questions of gender integration in transsexuality. While, historically, the medical/clinical establishment has treated the transsexual's desire for surgery as a hysterical demand, I develop the view, with the Lacanian theories of Gherovici and Verhaeghe, that transsexual surgery may signify a means to traverse phantasy and claim one's desire. This formulation depends on Lacan's notion of “the Act.” Along with presenting clinical material, the paper asks: is it useful to think about hysteria while trying ...
Journal of European Psychoanalysis, 2010
Summary: This paper focuses on the question of gender oscillation in a patient who describes diss... more Summary: This paper focuses on the question of gender oscillation in a patient who describes dissatisfaction in being embodied in either gender. The theory offered in this paper tries to touch on related but inherently disjointed aspects of sexuality and human existence such as time, difference and creativity. I will draw on the works of Winnicott, Kristeva, and Verhaeghe to posit different ways to think about the representation of oscillation as a problem of difference, jouissance and prohibition. The case will be used to ...
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2021
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2021
In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on th... more In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on the subject of transgender young people, with four psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers. The conversation draws on short essays submitted in this section of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child as a springboard for discussion. It has been transcribed and edited for length and clarity, and is reproduced here. Questions explored include the differences surrounding gender identity in childhood versus adulthood, the use of medical interventions for children experiencing gender dysphoria, the tension between psychoanalytic neutrality and affirmation, and the ethical stakes of working in this field.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on th... more In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on the subject of transgender young people, with four psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers. The conversation draws on short essays submitted in this section of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child as a springboard for discussion. It has been transcribed and edited for length and clarity, and is reproduced here. Questions explored include the differences surrounding gender identity in childhood versus adulthood, the use of medical interventions for children experiencing gender dysphoria, the tension between psychoanalytic neutrality and affirmation, and the ethical stakes of working in this field.
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies
Psychoanalytic review, 2018
This paper examines current psychoanalytic engagements with the use of hormone blockers in transs... more This paper examines current psychoanalytic engagements with the use of hormone blockers in transsexual children and the underlying premises concerning our understanding of the child's process of coming into his or her gendered self. Rather than taking sides in the debate, I explore how the "hormones question" becomes entangled in a series of misreadings and displacements through which the child's request could potentially be missed. In examining psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the trans child's agency, autonomy, and future and the relation between the natal body and gender, I ask, how is psychoanalytic discourse implicated in the very dilemmas it attempts to elucidate? Specifically, the essay examines critically the psychoanalytic use of continuity, authenticity, and alignment as implicit ideals, interrogates the focus on mourning as therapeutic horizon, and proposes that we conceive of gender as a good-enough placeholder with the potential to carry us fro...
In her paper “To Suffer Pleasure: The Shattering of the Ego as Psychic Labor of Perverse Sexualit... more In her paper “To Suffer Pleasure: The Shattering of the Ego as Psychic Labor of Perverse Sexuality,” published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Volume 15, Number 4, Saketopoulou proposes an alternative interpretation of perversion that allows the analyst to recognize perversity’s “productive potential” (Saketopoulou, 2014, p. 255). In this paper I offer a close reading of Saketapoulou’s essay to address 3 contentious issues in her arguments: (a) the author’s proposed definition of perversion and its relationship with the concept of polymorphous perversity, (b) the potential of transgressive sexuality to “shatter” the ego, and (c) the status of the analytic dyad in the case itself and beyond. As I attempt to demonstrate, Saketopoulou’s legitimate and necessary call to move away from dogmatic, pathologizing, and dismissive approaches to perversity requires an even more radical reinterpretation of both the concept of perversion and of what it means to listen analytically to “pervers...