from the invention of hysteria to the democratizing of transgenderism
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gherovici, Patricia
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2010
- Thesaurus
- transgenders, vrouwenlichamen, mannenlichamen, hysterie, transseksualiteit, seksualiteit, psychoanalyse, historisch
- Description
- Utilizing clinical vignettes and Lacanian theory the author demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframed debates about gender in American society. She traverses historical, theoretical, and clinical grounds to explore what has been termed the 'democratizing of gender' – for what could be more democratic than the choice of one’s own gender, now able to be changed on demand? Arguing for the depathologization of transgenderism this book aims to revise notions of human sexuality in general. In doing so, it challenges the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with questions addressed only indirectly, but which are transforming how analysis is done, advancing new ideas for the clinic that can be extrapolated to social and intellectual contexts .