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Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning : A Lacanian Approach by Oren Gozlan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning : A Lacanian Approach about?
Winner of The American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) Book Prize for 2015 Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian approach presents a startling new way to consider psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender through the meeting of arts and the clinic. Informed by a Lacanian perspective that locates transsexuality in the intermediate space between the clinic and culture, Oren Gozlan joins current conversations around the question of sexual difference with the insistence that identity never fully expresses sexuality and, as such, cannot be replaced by gender. The book goes beyond the idea of gender as an experience that gives rise to multiple identities and instead considers identity as split from the outset. This view transforms transsexuality into a particular psychic position, able to encounter the paradoxes of transitional experience and the valence of phantasy and affect that accompany aesthetic conflicts over the nature of beauty and being. Gozlan brings readers into the enigmatic qualities of representation as desire for completion and transformation through notions of tension, difference and aesthetics through examining the artwork of
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Oren Gozlan
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415855754
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Gender Studies, Social_sciences