Gender, Identifications, and Identities - Dialogues At the Edges

Gender, Identifications, and Identities considers the increasing visibility of sexual and gender diversity and reflects on how this is felt within psychoanalysis.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors and editors
Series Preface by Leticia Glocer Fiorini
Introduction by Luca Bruno, Eva Reichelt, and Frances Thomson-Salo
PART I Gender and sexuality in psychic development
Introduction
SIMONETTA BONFIGLIO
1 Sexuality and gender in development: Facets of bedrock and beyond
PAUL LYNCH
2 Neosexualities and gender identity: Is there a psychic place where they originate?
PAOLA MARION
3 An approach to contemporary subjectivities: Identifications, gender, and sexual difference
LETICIA GLOCER FIORINI
PART II Identifications, body, and gender
Introduction
SIRI ERIKA GULLESTAD
4 Body, sexuality, gender: Between identificatory project and desire
TIZIANA BASTIANINI
5 Trans-identifications
LUCA BRUNO
6 Gender identities and identifications in a changing world
VITTORIO LINGIARDI
7 Reclaiming psychic bisexuality: Revisiting Winnicott's "The Split-off Male and Female Elements to be Found Clinically in Men and Women" (1966)
ANAT SCHUMANN
PART III Gender fluidity: A challenge for approaching the coexistence of different states of the self
Introduction
LUISA MARINO-COE
8 Tolerating uncertainty. On reading Blutbuch by Kim de l'Horizon
EVA REICHELT
9 Gender fluidity: White holes in psychoanalytic theory?
MAURO MANICA
10 Gender in movement: The emergent versus the continuous
DANA AMIR
11 Rethinking sexual and gender diversity: Some psychoanalytic reflections
LAURA BALOTTIN AND DAVIDE BRUNO
Index

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Frances Bruno Thomson-Salo
• Assisted by: Luca Bruno (Editor), Eva Reichelt (Editor), Thomson-Salo Frances (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032877785
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287778-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Humanities, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis;IPA;Gender;Identity;Diversity