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Books by Patricia Gherovici
UMA PSICANÁLISE POR VIR: REPENSANDO A PSICANÁLISE DO SÉC. XXI, 2022
Nesse livro, Patricia Gherovici debruça-se sobre a palestra que Paul B. Preciado deu a uma audiên... more Nesse livro, Patricia Gherovici debruça-se sobre a palestra que Paul B. Preciado deu a uma audiência internacional de psicanalistas lacanianos em Paris, 2019. O encontro anual estava centrado no tema “Mulheres na psicanálise”, começou com uma observação desconcertante — “Há mulheres na psicanálise!” — e Preciado, conhecida figura transgênero, havia sido convidado pelos organizadores para a principal palestra.
Book, 2018
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic ... more Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy.
As opposed to most Latin American countries, where psychoanalysis is seen as a practice tied to the promotion of social justice, in the United States psychoanalysis has been viewed as reserved for the well-to-do, assuming that poor people lack the sophistication that psychoanalysis requires, thus heeding invisible but no less rigid class boundaries. Challenging such discrimination, the authors testify to the efficacy of psychoanalysis in the barrios, upending the unfounded widespread belief that poor people are so consumed with the pressures of everyday survival that they only benefit from symptom-focused interventions. Sharing vivid vignettes of psychoanalytic treatments, this collection sheds light on the psychological complexities of life in the barrio that is often marked by poverty, migration, marginalization, and barriers of language, class, and race.
This interdisciplinary collection features essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians. It represents a unique crossover that will appeal to readers in clinical practice, social work, counseling, anthropology, psychology, cultural and Latino studies, queer studies, urban studies, and sociology.
Papers by Patricia Gherovici
Routledge eBooks, Dec 5, 2022
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Psychoanalysis and History
This article is based on the author's experience working as a psychoanalyst in Philadelphia&#... more This article is based on the author's experience working as a psychoanalyst in Philadelphia's barrio in the 1990s, which led her to meditate on the psychology of racism, segregation, and other forms of intolerance of difference and otherness. The author argues that no analyst can be immune to the cultural context in which they work and that the simple fact that psychoanalysis is not available to the poor constitutes a form of racism. It further argues that psychoanalysis, thanks to its power of actualizing otherness in the context of analytic treatment, can reveal its emancipatory potential with populations marginalized by race, class, gender, or sexuality. In the second part, the article turns to the recent concept of Afro-pessimism as developed by Frank Wilderson III (2020) in connection with racism. For Wilderson, the curse of slavery has not been lifted, placing racialized subjects in a social death, a deathliness that saturates Black life. In an attempt to traverse this...
Psychoanalysis and History , 2022
Is psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a theoretical discourse capable of addressing bur... more Is psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a theoretical discourse capable of addressing burning issues of today's society such as race, power, and privilege? Is psychoanalysis only for the well-to-do? Is psychoanalysis normative, sexist, and patriarchal? As early as 1918, two months before the Armistice, aware of the destruction brought about by World War I and the huge problems created for the underprivileged, Sigmund Freud gave a moving lecture at the Fifth International Psychoanalytic Congress in Budapest. The often-quoted short address, 'Lines of Advance in Psychoanalytic Therapy,' initially focused on technical issues of treatment method. However, it dramatically changed its tone toward the end when Freud speculated about the future of psychoanalysis. Then he announced that 'at some time or other the conscience of society will awake' (Freud, 1919[1918], p. 167). The new awareness would entail: that the poor man should have just as much right to assistance for his mind as he now has to the life-saving help offered by surgery; and that the neuroses threaten public health no less than tuberculosis and can be left as little as the latter to the impotent care of individual members of the community. When this happens, institutions or outpatient clinics will be started, to which analytically trained physicians will be appointed, so that men who would otherwise give way to drink, women who have nearly succumbed under their burden of privations, children for whom there is no choice but between running wild or neurosis, may be made capable, by analysis, of resistance and of efficient work. (1919[1918], p. 167) By appealing to the conscience of society, Freud made an apparently obvious remark, although this was quite revolutionary at the time: the poor have as much
Transgender Psychoanalysis, 2017
The Psychoanalytic Review
This essay attempts to expand the traditional model of negative countertransference by giving it ... more This essay attempts to expand the traditional model of negative countertransference by giving it a Lacanian twist. The author uses theories and concepts from Freud, Winnicott, and Lacan in order to explore the affective dimension of countertransference in two cases of trans-identified patients. In the first case, the author shows that wanting to do good was counterproductive, while in the second vignette maintaining a position of neutrality allowed the author to go beyond fear and pity, which led to a dynamic resolution.
The Truths of Psychoanalysis, 2022
Transgender Psychoanalysis, 2017
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World, 2017
Transgender Psychoanalysis, 2017
Filozofski Vestnik, 2018
My work with transsexuals has allowed me to understand how the concept of synthome can apply to t... more My work with transsexuals has allowed me to understand how the concept of synthome can apply to their case, especially in so far as it allowed me to distinguish pathological from non-pathological structures. To buttress my clinical work, a reading of transsexual memoirs has led me to perceive how a second materialization of the body is a consequence of a torsion knotted by writing.
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
Aperturas psicoanalíticas: Revista de psicoanálisis, 2021
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2020
Responding to Straayer’s article linking the phenomenon of phantom limbs to the experience of tra... more Responding to Straayer’s article linking the phenomenon of phantom limbs to the experience of trans men, I highlight common features between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. My commentary questions a few claims made by Straayer. Applying psychoanalytic concepts, I refer to a short story by Christine Brooke-Rose and to a notorious case by Robert Stoller that has been neglected in psychoanalytic literature, a book-length study of a female patient who experienced having a phantom penis. This allows me to discuss the controversial notion of the phallus and bring it to bear on the original and stimulating thesis presented here.
Filozofski Vestnik, 2018
My work with transsexuals has allowed me to understand how the concept of synthome can apply to t... more My work with transsexuals has allowed me to understand how the concept of synthome can apply to their case, especially in so far as it allowed me to distinguish pathological from non-pathological structures. To buttress my clinical work, a reading of transsexual memoirs has led me to perceive how a second materialization of the body is a consequence of a torsion knotted by writing.
UMA PSICANÁLISE POR VIR: REPENSANDO A PSICANÁLISE DO SÉC. XXI, 2022
Nesse livro, Patricia Gherovici debruça-se sobre a palestra que Paul B. Preciado deu a uma audiên... more Nesse livro, Patricia Gherovici debruça-se sobre a palestra que Paul B. Preciado deu a uma audiência internacional de psicanalistas lacanianos em Paris, 2019. O encontro anual estava centrado no tema “Mulheres na psicanálise”, começou com uma observação desconcertante — “Há mulheres na psicanálise!” — e Preciado, conhecida figura transgênero, havia sido convidado pelos organizadores para a principal palestra.
Book, 2018
Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic ... more Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy.
As opposed to most Latin American countries, where psychoanalysis is seen as a practice tied to the promotion of social justice, in the United States psychoanalysis has been viewed as reserved for the well-to-do, assuming that poor people lack the sophistication that psychoanalysis requires, thus heeding invisible but no less rigid class boundaries. Challenging such discrimination, the authors testify to the efficacy of psychoanalysis in the barrios, upending the unfounded widespread belief that poor people are so consumed with the pressures of everyday survival that they only benefit from symptom-focused interventions. Sharing vivid vignettes of psychoanalytic treatments, this collection sheds light on the psychological complexities of life in the barrio that is often marked by poverty, migration, marginalization, and barriers of language, class, and race.
This interdisciplinary collection features essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians. It represents a unique crossover that will appeal to readers in clinical practice, social work, counseling, anthropology, psychology, cultural and Latino studies, queer studies, urban studies, and sociology.
Routledge eBooks, Dec 5, 2022
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Psychoanalysis and History
This article is based on the author's experience working as a psychoanalyst in Philadelphia&#... more This article is based on the author's experience working as a psychoanalyst in Philadelphia's barrio in the 1990s, which led her to meditate on the psychology of racism, segregation, and other forms of intolerance of difference and otherness. The author argues that no analyst can be immune to the cultural context in which they work and that the simple fact that psychoanalysis is not available to the poor constitutes a form of racism. It further argues that psychoanalysis, thanks to its power of actualizing otherness in the context of analytic treatment, can reveal its emancipatory potential with populations marginalized by race, class, gender, or sexuality. In the second part, the article turns to the recent concept of Afro-pessimism as developed by Frank Wilderson III (2020) in connection with racism. For Wilderson, the curse of slavery has not been lifted, placing racialized subjects in a social death, a deathliness that saturates Black life. In an attempt to traverse this...
Psychoanalysis and History , 2022
Is psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a theoretical discourse capable of addressing bur... more Is psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and as a theoretical discourse capable of addressing burning issues of today's society such as race, power, and privilege? Is psychoanalysis only for the well-to-do? Is psychoanalysis normative, sexist, and patriarchal? As early as 1918, two months before the Armistice, aware of the destruction brought about by World War I and the huge problems created for the underprivileged, Sigmund Freud gave a moving lecture at the Fifth International Psychoanalytic Congress in Budapest. The often-quoted short address, 'Lines of Advance in Psychoanalytic Therapy,' initially focused on technical issues of treatment method. However, it dramatically changed its tone toward the end when Freud speculated about the future of psychoanalysis. Then he announced that 'at some time or other the conscience of society will awake' (Freud, 1919[1918], p. 167). The new awareness would entail: that the poor man should have just as much right to assistance for his mind as he now has to the life-saving help offered by surgery; and that the neuroses threaten public health no less than tuberculosis and can be left as little as the latter to the impotent care of individual members of the community. When this happens, institutions or outpatient clinics will be started, to which analytically trained physicians will be appointed, so that men who would otherwise give way to drink, women who have nearly succumbed under their burden of privations, children for whom there is no choice but between running wild or neurosis, may be made capable, by analysis, of resistance and of efficient work. (1919[1918], p. 167) By appealing to the conscience of society, Freud made an apparently obvious remark, although this was quite revolutionary at the time: the poor have as much
Transgender Psychoanalysis, 2017
The Psychoanalytic Review
This essay attempts to expand the traditional model of negative countertransference by giving it ... more This essay attempts to expand the traditional model of negative countertransference by giving it a Lacanian twist. The author uses theories and concepts from Freud, Winnicott, and Lacan in order to explore the affective dimension of countertransference in two cases of trans-identified patients. In the first case, the author shows that wanting to do good was counterproductive, while in the second vignette maintaining a position of neutrality allowed the author to go beyond fear and pity, which led to a dynamic resolution.
The Truths of Psychoanalysis, 2022
Transgender Psychoanalysis, 2017
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World, 2017
Transgender Psychoanalysis, 2017
Filozofski Vestnik, 2018
My work with transsexuals has allowed me to understand how the concept of synthome can apply to t... more My work with transsexuals has allowed me to understand how the concept of synthome can apply to their case, especially in so far as it allowed me to distinguish pathological from non-pathological structures. To buttress my clinical work, a reading of transsexual memoirs has led me to perceive how a second materialization of the body is a consequence of a torsion knotted by writing.
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
Aperturas psicoanalíticas: Revista de psicoanálisis, 2021
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2020
Responding to Straayer’s article linking the phenomenon of phantom limbs to the experience of tra... more Responding to Straayer’s article linking the phenomenon of phantom limbs to the experience of trans men, I highlight common features between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. My commentary questions a few claims made by Straayer. Applying psychoanalytic concepts, I refer to a short story by Christine Brooke-Rose and to a notorious case by Robert Stoller that has been neglected in psychoanalytic literature, a book-length study of a female patient who experienced having a phantom penis. This allows me to discuss the controversial notion of the phallus and bring it to bear on the original and stimulating thesis presented here.
Filozofski Vestnik, 2018
My work with transsexuals has allowed me to understand how the concept of synthome can apply to t... more My work with transsexuals has allowed me to understand how the concept of synthome can apply to their case, especially in so far as it allowed me to distinguish pathological from non-pathological structures. To buttress my clinical work, a reading of transsexual memoirs has led me to perceive how a second materialization of the body is a consequence of a torsion knotted by writing.
Trivium: Estudos Interdisciplinares, 2018
Resumo A psicanálise, no decorrer de seu desenvolvimento, assumiu uma posição normativa ao interp... more Resumo A psicanálise, no decorrer de seu desenvolvimento, assumiu uma posição normativa ao interpretar a transexualidade como índice de patologia. As pessoas transgênero têm apontado para a impossibilidade de representar a sexualidade, uma impossibilidade que subverte implicitamente a fixidez de todas as reivindicações identitárias. Não há dúvida de que o fenômeno cultural descrito nas notícias como "momento transgênero" está mudando as nossas noções de gênero, sexo e identidade sexual. Esta evolução implica um realinhamento importante na prática psicanalítica.