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Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.
List of contents
Series prefaceLeticia Glocer FioriniIntroductionLeticia Glocer Fiorini, Jean Marc Tauszikm and Silvia AcostaPART 1. GENDER AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX - THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXED SUBJECTIVITYThis part includes three chapters which focuses on the contributions and limits of the Oedipus complex regarding sexual and gender diversity.INTRODUCTION.
Silvia AcostaCHAPTER 1. Oedipus, subjectivity, and culture.
Hugo LernerCHAPTER 2. Oedipus... next! A critique of heteropatriarchal psychoanalysis.
Fernanda MagallanesCHAPTER 3. The Oedipus complex in the light of contemporary subjectivities: from Thebes to 21st century.
Leticia Glocer FioriniPART 2. DIALOGUES AT THE BORDER - THE QUEER POSITIONThis part proposes different viewpoints on the queer position and its challenge to the psychoanalytic field.INTRODUCTION.
Jean Marc TauszikCHAPTER 4. Are we perhaps all queer?
Leonardo PeskinCHAPTER 5. Queering psychoanalysis: from a queer Freud to a trans Lacan
Patricia GheroviciCHAPTER 6. Trans-identities: epistemological problems, binary logic, and the analyst¿s disphoria.
Nicolas EvzonasPART 3. THE ANALYST DIVERSITY - LISTENING IN THE ANALYTICAL SESSIONThis part focuses on the analyst's position, including countertransference, listening in the session, and the analyst's own internal diversity.INTRODUCTION.
Alejandra Vertzner MaruccoCHAPTER 7. Diversity and countertransference.
Cláudio Laks EizirikCHAPTER 8. Listening to and enduring the polymorphous.
Yago FrancoCHAPTER 9. Listening to the Rokitansky Syndrome.
Andrea IkonicoffPART 4. REVISITING PATRIARCHY - MYTHS AND BELIEFSThis part approaches the role of patriarchy in the construction of subjectivity as well as in the relationship between the sexes. It includes its impact on the construction of theories.INTRODUCTION.
Analía WaldCHAPTER 10. Patriarchy revisited through Afro-Brazilian religions.
Alice Becker LewkowiczCHAPTER 11. Reviewing patriarchy: myths and beliefs.
Isidoro VeghCHAPTER 12. The Tiresias blow or, the use of phallocentric resistance in the analytical field.
Marco PosadasPART 5. GENDER VIOLENCE - ANGST FACING UNCERTAINTYIn this part different authors refer to gender violence and its meanings, from the individual and collective point of view, regarding sexual difference. A contemporary legal point of view is included.
INTRODUCTION.
Luisa AcrichCHAPTER 13. "Macha" Violence.
Fernando OrduzCHAPTER 14. Violence(s) and intolerance to the feminine: between singular and plural scenarios.
Patricia AlkolombreCHAPTER 15. Violence and difference.
Javier García CastiñeirasPART 6. IDENTITY, GENDER, AND SUBJECTIVITYThis part presents different thoughts related to the concept of identity in psychoanalysis, including its relation to gender, subjectivity, and sexuality. It also discusses the distinction between identity and difference. Introduction.
Maria Cristina FulcoCHAPTER 16. Identity, gender and subjectivity.
Luis HornsteinCHAPTER 17. Binary or different?
Julio MorenoCHAPTER 18. Constructing identities - a proposal.
Teresa LartigueCHAPTER 19. Metapsychological thoughts on infancy focusing on contemporary identity issues.
Mara SverdlikCHAPTER 20. Trans/adolescences - a brief communication.
Sergio Lewkowicz
About the author
Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD, is training and supervising analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA). She is current Chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, and Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires.
Jean Marc Tauszik is a psychoanalyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society and co-chair for Latin America of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee and chair of the PPL platform (Latin American Psychoanalytic Thought).
Silvia R. Acosta, PhD, is a psychoanalyst at the Asociación Psicoanalítica de Cordoba, Argentina, and member of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise, Lisbon. Currently, she is the Scientific Secretary of the Annual Book of Psychoanalysis in Spanish.
