Transgender Psychoanalysis av Patricia Gherovici

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<P>Drawing on the author''s clinical work with gender-variant patients, <I>Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference </I>argues for a depathologizing of the transgender experience, while offering an original analysis of sexual difference. We are living in a "trans" moment that has become the next civil rights frontier. By unfixing our notions of gender, sex, and sexual identity, challenging normativity and essentialisms, trans modalities of embodiment can help reorient psychoanalytic practice. </P><P>This book addresses sexual identity and sexuality by articulating new ideas on the complex relationship of the body to the psyche, the precariousness of gender, the instability of the male/female opposition, identity construction, uncertainties about sexual choice-in short, the conundrum of sexual difference. <I>Transgender Psychoanalysis </I>features explications of Lacanian psychoanalysis along with considerations on sex and gender in the form of clinic