Transsexuality and the art of transitioning : a Lacanian approach / Oren Gozlan.

'As psychoanalyst at work, Oren Gozlan presents gender on the move and in transition. It is within the enigmas of life, Gozlan argues, best expressed between the clinic and the creative arts that open psychoanalysis to alterity. The novel analysis of transsexuality is presented through the aesthetic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gozlan, Oren (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Subjects:
Transsexualism > Psychological aspects.
Gender nonconformity > Psychological aspects.
Gender identity > Psychological aspects.
Physical Description:xv, 104 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Transsexuality as a State of Mind: Questions of learning and indeterminacy
  • 2. The Aesthetics of Transitioning
  • 3. Narrating Transsexuality: Transition from memoir to literature
  • 4. Transsexual Surgery: A novel reminder and a navel remainder
  • 5. The "Real" Time of Gender 6. Re-writing the Screen.
  • Conclusion: Afterwordness.