Queer Traversals

Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvChris Coffman

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Working at the intersection of psychoanalytic, queer, and transgender theories, this book argues for the need to read Lacanian psychoanalysis through a queer and trans-positive framework. In so doing, it challenges the dimensions of fantasy at play in efforts to insist on the continued validity of the binary gender system. Targeting the Lacanian concept of “sexual difference” - that desire is structured through the difference between masculine and feminine - it argues that this idea is not transhistorical, as orthodox Lacanians claim, but rather a historically contingent fantasy. As such, it argues that psychoanalytic queer theorists need to go beyond this fantasy to register truly the full range of sexualities and modes of embodiment. Examining texts as diverse as films such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch and literary texts such as Paul takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, the book enables a queer and trans- inclusive model of theorizing subjectivity in psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies and cultural studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-07-27
Mått152 x 232 x 16 mm
Vikt260 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor258
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350200043

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Chapter One: Queering ŽižekChapter Two: No Future? Traversing the Fantasy of (Hetero)sexual DifferenceChapter Three: Žižek’s Antagonism and The Futures of Trans-Affirmative Lacanian PsychoanalysisChapter Four: Cavanagh and Gherovici: Toward a Transfeminist Theory of EmbodimentChapter Five: Traversing the Atlantic, Traversing (Hetero)sexual DifferenceChapter Six: Traversing North America, Traversing (Hetero)sexual DifferenceCoda: Traversing the Fantasy of Authoritarian PatriarchyBibliography

An invaluable commentary on the status of gender and sexuality in Lacanian psychoanalysis. By putting contemporary Lacanians like Slavoj Žižek on the theoretical couch, the author embarks upon a riveting analysis of how we may lay the groundwork for a queer and trans-affirmative psychoanalysis. Coffman is one of the most important queer scholars writing today on subjectivity, gender and sexuality in Lacanian perspective.