'The psychoanalytic study of transgender phenomena is currently experiencing a renaissance, with a plethora of revisionist work that simultaneously brings psychoanalytic insight to bear in a non-pathologizing way on the psychical life of transgender people, while allowing transgender experience to contribute to a fundamental reformulation of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Oren Gozlan is a leading voice in this important undertaking, and the work he has assembled in this anthology makes a vital contribution to giving psychonanalysis the 'sex change' it needs.'-Susan Stryker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona; Co-Editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
"This collection brilliantly display different perspectives in current ideas of transsexuality and gender transitioning, showing the plurality of terms and interpretations that are used in reference to "trans" experiences. The reader will be in touch with a remarkable interdisciplinary approach, that highlights the inevitable tension between the multiplicity of discourses on this topic as well as the contradictions at the inside of each discourse. Rich with highly interesting proposals, contributions go through literary, therapeutic, legal aspects, biopolitics, among others. Last but not least, the reader will be able to face the certain degree of uncertainty that is also a mark of this field. Beyond normative discourses of sexual difference, the book stresses the importance of transition, movement, becoming as well as the importance of the relation with otherness, concerning processes of subjectivation."-Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD, training and supervising analyst; Past President of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA); author of the Deconstructing the Feminine and Sexual Difference in Debate
'The psychoanalytic study of transgender phenomena is currently experiencing a renaissance, with a plethora of revisionist work that simultaneously brings psychoanalytic insight to bear in a non-pathologizing way on the psychical life of transgender people, while allowing transgender experience to contribute to a fundamental reformulation of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Oren Gozlan is a leading voice in this important undertaking, and the work he has assembled in this anthology makes a vital contribution to giving psychonanalysis the 'sex change' it needs.'-Susan Stryker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona; Co-Editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
"This collection brilliantly display different perspectives in current ideas of transsexuality and gender transitioning, showing the plurality of terms and interpretations that are used in reference to "trans" experiences. The reader will be in touch with a remarkable interdisciplinary approach, that highlights the inevitable tension between the multiplicity of discourses on this topic as well as the contradictions at the inside of each discourse. Rich with highly interesting proposals, contributions go through literary, therapeutic, legal aspects, biopolitics, among others. Last but not least, the reader will be able to face the certain degree of uncertainty that is also a mark of this field. Beyond normative discourses of sexual difference, the book stresses the importance of transition, movement, becoming as well as the importance of the relation with otherness, concerning processes of subjectivation."-Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD, training and supervising analyst; Past President of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA); author of the Deconstructing the Feminine and Sexual Difference in Debate
