Queer Traversals

Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories

Chris Coffman

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
27 July 2023

Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism; Gay & Lesbian studies

Working at the intersection of psychoanalytic, queer, and transgender theories, this book argues for the need to read Lacanian psychoanalysis through a queer and trans-positive framework. In so doing, it challenges the dimensions of fantasy at play in efforts to insist on the continued validity of the binary gender system. Targeting the Lacanian concept of “sexual difference” - that desire is structured through the difference between masculine and feminine - it argues that this idea is not transhistorical, as orthodox Lacanians claim, but rather a historically contingent fantasy. As such, it argues that psychoanalytic queer theorists need to go beyond this fantasy to register truly the full range of sexualities and modes of embodiment.

Examining texts as diverse as films such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch and literary texts such as Paul takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, the book enables a queer and trans- inclusive model of theorizing subjectivity in psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies and cultural studies.

By: Chris Coffman
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350200043
ISBN 10: 1350200042
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 27 July 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chris Coffman is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. The author of Insane Passions and Gertrude Stein's Transmasculinity, she writes about modernist literary and visual culture as well as aboute psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, and transgender theories.

Reviews for Queer Traversals: Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories

An invaluable commentary on the status of gender and sexuality in Lacanian psychoanalysis. By putting contemporary Lacanians like Slavoj Zizek on the theoretical couch, the author embarks upon a riveting analysis of how we may lay the groundwork for a queer and trans-affirmative psychoanalysis. Coffman is one of the most important queer scholars writing today on subjectivity, gender and sexuality in Lacanian perspective. * Sheila L. Cavanagh, Sociology Professor, York University, Canada *