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Transsexuality as an Emotional Situation, Aesthetics and a State of Mind

A question of difference.

June 27, 2019 • by Oren Gozlan

--- The problem of sexual difference is, for obvious reasons, of paramount importance in the field of Trans Studies. Historically, the psychoanalytic clinic has leaned on the symbolic oppositions between phallic/castrated, masculine/feminine, and absence/presence in understanding sexual difference. Patricia Gherovici’s recent book “Transgender Psychoanalysis” speaks to the new generation of people ...

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Transgender Psychoanalysis

Lacan, sex, and sinthomes

June 26, 2019 • by Sheila L. Cavanagh

--- On April 20, 2016, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek described “transgenderism” as an attempt to undermine sexual difference. In other words, he contended that transpeople are reducing what is, for Lacanian psychoanalysis, an unavoidable sexual impasse to an identity-based human rights discourse (that fits nicely into the neo-liberal capitalist order).[i] He suggested that ...

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Matters of Life and Sex

Trans-ing Psychoanalysis

June 25, 2019 • by Patricia Gherovici

In 2010, feeling the need to reflect upon the lessons I learned from my practice, I wrote a book about patients who identified as transgender entitled Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism. This book summarized my experience during a time of reform that ...

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Shakespeare on Helicopter Parenting

‘And so shall starve with feeding’

June 22, 2019 • by Luke Williams

Minor disagreements have been overshadowed by common findings; first, helicopter parenting is hyper-present, characterized by abundant parental support but only to craft a child's behavior and public image. And second, helicopter parenting hinders the child's ability to develop an autonomous character -- the ability to make critical, life-changing decisions, more ...

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An interview with Michael J Feldman

On Ghosts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

June 5, 2019 • by Michael J. Feldman and Josh Maserow

Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis dives into the overwhelming and often unprocessed feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of marginality or ongoing melancholia. Bringing together a collection of clinical and theoretical papers, Ghosts in the Consulting ...

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Ghosts, Trauma and Travel Fever in Psychoanalysis 2

A reflection on working with the transgenerational transmission of trauma

June 3, 2019 • by Michael J. Feldman

Aaron didn’t connect hunger or continuous travel with the flight of his father’s family during the Second World War. He didn’t relate a director ordering him around now with a domineering father bossing him around as a boy without protection from a depressed mother. Cutting ties to any childhood past, ...

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Ghosts, Trauma and Travel Fever in Psychoanalysis

A reflection on working with the transgenerational transmission of trauma

June 3, 2019 • by Michael J. Feldman

Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis, published by the Relational Perspectives Book Series, delves into the overwhelming feelings related to mourning. Bringing together a collection of clinical and theoretical papers, it features accounts of the unpredictable effects of trauma that emerge within clinical work, often unexpectedly, in ways ...

Ghosts, Trauma and Travel Fever in Psychoanalysis

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The Anxiety Industry

At the limits of anxious consumerism

May 17, 2019 • by A.T. Kingsmith

Anxiety -- that chronic, widespread uncertainty proliferating out of the insecurities that exemplify modern life -- has become the lodestone of 21st century consumer capitalism. From fidget spinners, gravity blankets, CBD oils, air fresheners and skincare products to white noise machines, salt lamps, calming diffusers and the countless meditation apps inundating our ...

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How to Bring Emotion back into Psychoanalysis

An excerpt from “Minding Emotions”

May 15, 2019 • by Elliot Jurist

In memory of Lew Aron, psychoanalyst, scholar, teacher and friend. Mentalization -- the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states -- is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better we are at mentalizing, the more ...

How to Bring Emotion back into Psychoanalysis

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Psychotherapy, Emotions, Communication and The Search For Truth

An interview with Elliot Jurist

May 13, 2019 • by Elliot Jurist and Josh Maserow

In memory of Lew Aron, psychoanalyst, scholar, teacher and friend. Mentalization -- the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states -- is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better we are at mentalizing, the more ...

Psychotherapy, Emotions, Communication and The Search For Truth

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Mass Psychology of Crisis

For a structural analysis of financialization and against the use of “fascism” as a scare tactic

April 23, 2019 • by Nancy Fraser

Mass psychology, new fascism, financialization. The conjunction of these three terms is startling. Its meaning is not immediately transparent. To grasp it requires an imaginative leap. What connects them, for me, is a fourth term, crisis. Not just financial crisis, nor indeed any crisis that is merely sectoral -- whether ecological, economic, social or ...

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New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization: Part 3

Psychoanalytic resources for (anti-) fascist mobilization

April 19, 2019 • by Lucas Ballestín

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koK79g4O-qQ&feature=youtu.be Organized by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (University College London) and Chiara Bottici (New School) What do the worlds of global finance and nationalist populism have in common? How can we understand the rise of today’s 'new fascisms' through the prism of financialization? This one-day workshop brought together scholars from across disciplines to ...