Main description:

Gender and sexuality remain cutting edge topics in psychoanalysis * Contains contributions from major names * Suitable for professional training and practice

Contents:

Introduction Part 1: The Genealogy of Sex and Gender 1. Tim Dean, 'Freud's Menage a Quatre' 2. Elissa Marder, 'Glossa and "Counter-Will": The Perverse Tongue of Psychoanalysis' 3. Darian Leader, 'The Gender Question from Freud to Lacan' 4. Jamieson Webster and Marcus Coelen, 'Two Analysts Ask, "What is Genitality? Ferenczi's Thalassa and Lacan's Lamella"' 5. Genevieve Morel, 'Undoing the Interpellation of Gender and the Ideologies of Sex' Part 2: Queering Psychoanalysis: Fantasy, Anthropology and Libidinal Economy 6. Eve Watson, 'The Role of Phantasy in Representations and Practices of Homosexuality: Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship and Edmund White's Our Young Man' 7. Ray O'Neill, 'Oscar Wilde: Father and Som' 8. Monique David-Menard, 'Does the Anthropology of Kinship Talk about Sex?' 9. Kelly Oliver, 'From Fundamentalism to Forgiveness: Sex/Gender Beyond Determinism or Volunteerism' 10. Juliet Flower MacCannell, 'Sexual (In)difference in Late Capitalism: "Freeing Us from Sex"' Part 3: Being and Becoming TRANS-* 11. Sheila L. Cavanagh, 'Tiresias and the Other Sexual Difference: Jacques Lacan and Bracha L. Ettinger' 12. Oren Gozlan, 'In-Difference: Feminisim and Transgender in the Field of Fantasy' 13. Ranjana Khanna, 'Translation, Geschlecht and Thinking Across: On the Theory of Trans-' 14. Dina Al-Kassim, 'Scenes of Self-Conduct in Contemporary Iran: Transnational Subjectivities Knitted On Site' 15. Calvin Thomas, 'Lacanistas in the Stalls: Urinary Segregation, Transgendered Abjection, and the Queerly Ambulant Dead' 16. Dany Nobus, 'Becoming Being: Chance, Choice and the Troubles of Trans*cursivity' 17. Elena Comay del Junco, 'Just Kidding: Valeria Solana's SCUM and Andrea Long Chu's Females' 18. Yannik Thiem, 'Transgender Quarrels and the Unspeakable Whiteness of Psychoanalysis'