Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning - A Lacanian Approach

Gozlan presents a new way to consider psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender through the meeting of arts and the clinic.

List of contents

Acknolwedgements. Introduction 1. Transsexuality as a State of Mind: Questions of learning and indeterminacy 2. The Aesthetics of Transitioning 3. Narrating Transsexuality: Transition from memoir to literature 4. Transsexual Surgery: A novel reminder and a navel remainder 5. The "Real" Time of Gender 6. Re-writing the Screen. Conclusion: Afterwordness.

About the author

Oren Gozlan, Psy.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst in private practice and professor and director of clinical training at the Adler Graduate School in Toronto. He is a Diplomate in Psychoanalysis with the American Board of Professional Psychology where he serves as Treasurer, Fellow of the Academy of Psychoanalysis and is also the Chair of the Gender and Sexuality Committee of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education.

Summary

Gozlan presents a new way to consider psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender through the meeting of arts and the clinic.

Product details

• Authors: Oren Gozlan, Gozlan Oren
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2014
• EAN: 9780415855747
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85574-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychology of gender, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis