Gender, Identifications, and Identities

Frances Thomson-Salo, Ph.D., is a training adult and child psychoanalyst and the European co-chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee.Luca Bruno, Ph.D, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in Milan. He is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and the IPA European Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.Eva Reichelt is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Berlin. She is a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the IPA European Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.

• AcknowledgementsContributors and editorsSeries Preface by Leticia Glocer Fiorini Introduction by Luca Bruno, Eva Reichelt, and Frances Thomson-SaloPART I Gender and sexuality in psychic developmentIntroductionSIMONETTA BONFIGLIO1 Sexuality and gender in development: Facets of bedrock and beyondPAUL LYNCH2 Neosexualities and gender identity: Is there a psychic place where they originate?PAOLA MARION3 An approach to contemporary subjectivities: Identifications, gender, and sexual differenceLETICIA GLOCER FIORINIPART II Identifications, body, and genderIntroductionSIRI ERIKA GULLESTAD4 Body, sexuality, gender: Between identificatory project and desireTIZIANA BASTIANINI5 Trans-identificationsLUCA BRUNO6 Gender identities and identifications in a changing worldVITTORIO LINGIARDI7 Reclaiming psychic bisexuality: Revisiting Winnicott’s "The Split-off Male and Female Elements to be Found Clinically in Men and Women" (1966)ANAT SCHUMANNPART III Gender fluidity: A challenge for approaching the coexistence of different states of the selfIntroductionLUISA MARINO-COE8 Tolerating uncertainty. On reading Blutbuch by Kim de l’HorizonEVA REICHELT9 Gender fluidity: White holes in psychoanalytic theory?MAURO MANICA10 Gender in movement: The emergent versus the continuousDANA AMIR11 Rethinking sexual and gender diversity: Some psychoanalytic reflectionsLAURA BALOTTIN AND DAVIDE BRUNOIndex

“In this highly topical book, renowned psychoanalytical experts present their knowledge and clinical experiences of the connections between body, mental development, sexuality, (fluid) gender, identifications and identities from different perspectives in a fascinating new way.” - Heribert Blass, the incoming IPA president