Patricia Gherovici: 3 books
by Patricia Gherovici
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology
During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These...
Please Select Your Gender
From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
"I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles."
Thus we meet Hera, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender. Is...
Transgender Psychoanalysis
A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Drawing on the author’s clinical work with gender-variant patients, Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference argues for a depathologizing of the transgender experience, while offering an original analysis of sexual difference. We are living in a "trans" moment...