Winner of The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) Book Prize for 2015, Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian approach presents a startling new way to consider psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender through the meeting of arts and the clinic. Informed by a Lacanian perspective, the book locates transsexuality in the intermediate space between the clinic and culture. Gozlan brings readers into the enigmatic qualities of representation as desire for completion and transformation.
Key Features
- Explores psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender.
- Informed by a Lacanian perspective.
- Transforms the understanding of transsexuality into a particular psychic position.
- Examines the artwork of Anish Kapoor and Louise Bourgeois.
- Considers transsexuality as a creative act, rich with desire and danger.
Additional Information
The book goes beyond the idea of gender as an experience that gives rise to multiple identities and instead considers identity as split from the outset. Each chapter presents a productive take on understanding the psychoanalytic demand to sustain and consider the dilemma that the unconscious presents to the knowledge and recognition of gender. This work understands transsexuality as both an analytic and a subjective object, helping reveal the creativity of sexuality. Ideal for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers as well as students of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and literature studies.
