Polymorphisms

Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Jean Marc Tauszik, Silvia R. Acosta

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Routledge
30 June 2025

Humanities; Cultural studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

Series: IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies

Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.

The chapters consider key topics including the Oedipus-castration complex, the link between sexuality and gender, identity, and gender violence, while also addressing queer/transgender subjectivities, countertransference, and the implicit and explicit theories that shape clinical practice. Taking an intra and interdisciplinary approach, the collection considers ideas that enrich the clinical approach while highlighting contradictions and heterogeneities, and moving away from essentialisms. As a whole, the book delimits debates and questions rather than offering definitive answers, taking the perspective that psychoanalysis is a discipline in continuous interrogation of its own propositions.

Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to academics of psychoanalytic studies and gender studies.

Edited by: Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Jean Marc Tauszik, Silvia R. Acosta
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032877624
ISBN 10: 1032877626
Series: IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 30 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Series Preface Leticia Glocer Fiorini Introduction Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Jean Marc Tauszik, Silvia Acosta PART 1. GENDER AND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX. THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXED SUBJECTIVITY This part includes three chapters which focuses on the contributions and limits of the Oedipus complex regarding sexual and gender diversity. CHAPTER 1. Oedipus, Subjectivity, and Culture. Hugo Lerner CHAPTER 2. Oedipus… Next! A critique of heteropatriarchal psychoanalysis. Fernanda Magallanes CHAPTER 3. The Oedipus complex in the light of contemporary subjectivities. From Thebes to XXI century. Leticia Glocer Fiorini COMMENTS. Silvia Acosta PART 2. DIALOGUES AT THE BORDER: THE QUEER POSITION This part proposes different viewpoints on the queer position and its challenge to the psychoanalytic field. INTRODUCTION. Jean Marc Tauszik CHAPTER 4. Are we perhaps all queer? Leonardo Peskin CHAPTER 5. Queering Psychoanalysis: From a Queer Freud to a Trans Lacan Patricia Gherovici CHAPTER 6. Trans-identities: Epistemological Problems, Binary Logic, and the Analyst´s Disphoria. Nicolas Evzonas PART 3. THE ANALYST DIVERSITY: LISTENING IN THE ANALYTICAL SESSION This part focuses on the analyst’s position, including countertransference, listening in the session, and the analyst’s own internal diversity. CHAPTER 7. Diversity and countertransference. Cláudio Laks Eizirik CHAPTER 8. Listening to oneself facing polymorphism. Yago Franco CHAPTER 9. Listening to the Rokitansky syndrome. Andrea Ikonicoff COMMENTS. Alejandra Vertzner Marucco PART 4. REVISITING PATRIARCHY. MYTHS AND BELIEFS This part approaches the role of patriarchy in the construction of subjectivity as well as in the relationship between the sexes. It includes its impact on the construction of theories. INTRODUCTION. Analía Wald CHAPTER 10. Patriarchy revisited in the light of Afro-Brazilian religions. Alice Becker Lewkowicz CHAPTER 11. Reviewing patriarchy. Myths and Beliefs. Isidoro Vegh CHAPTER 12. The Tiresias’ blow or the use of Phallocentric Resistance in the Analytical Field. Marco Posadas PART 5. GENDER VIOLENCE. ANGST FACING UNCERTAINTY In this part different authors refer to gender violence and its meanings, from the individual and collective point of view, regarding sexual difference. A contemporary legal point of view is included. INTRODUCTION. Luisa Acrich CHAPTER 13. ‘Macha’ violence. Fernando Orduz CHAPTER 14. Itinerary of gender violence(s): between the singular and the plural. Patricia Alkolombre CHAPTER 15. Violence and difference. Javier García Castiñeiras PART 6. IDENTITY, GENDER, AND SUBJECTIVITY This part presents different thoughts related to the concept of identity in psychoanalysis, including its relation to gender, subjectivity, and sexuality. It also discusses the distinction between identity and difference. Introduction. Maria Cristina Fulco CHAPTER 16. Identity, gender, and subjectivity. Luis Hornstein CHAPTER 17. Binary or different? Julio Moreno CHAPTER 18. Constructing identities. A proposal. Teresa Lartigue CHAPTER 19. Metapsychological thoughts on infancy focusing on contemporary identity issues. Mara Sverdlik CHAPTER 20. Trans- Adolescences – A brief communication. Sergio Lewkowicz

Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD, is training and supervising analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA). She is current Chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, and Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. Jean Marc Tauszik is a psychoanalyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society and co-chair for Latin America of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee and chair of the PPL platform (Latin American Psychoanalytic Thought). Silvia R. Acosta, PhD, is a psychoanalyst at the Asociación Psicoanalítica de Cordoba, Argentina, and member of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise, Lisbon. Currently, she is the Scientific Secretary of the Annual Book of Psychoanalysis in Spanish.

Reviews for Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

“Contemporary psychoanalysts are keen explorers of the new, intrigued by what in some ways is still waiting to be understood; they are well documented and also on average freer of prejudice than other professional categories involved in the field; finally, their research is also often creative. This is demonstrated by this splendid volume ‘Polymorphisms’, which originated as part of the ‘Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee’ of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and which offers a broad, advanced and kaleidoscopic psychoanalytic view on one of the most vibrantly debated topics in today's culture.” - Stefano Bolognini; Past-President IPA “This book, updated and expanded, is a product of the First Latin American Dialogue organized by the IPA's Committee on Sexual Diversity and Gender Studies in November 2019 in Buenos Aires, is a significant contribution to the ongoing debates. It focuses on the psychoanalytic vision of sexual and gender diversity, a topic of utmost importance in the current circumstances. This publication is a key piece, actively engaging us in the necessary debates in these uncertain times.” - Virginia Ungar; IPA Former President (2017-2021)