Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini, "Gender Without Identity" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)
New Books in Psychology
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The Difference Between Developmental and Non-Psychoanalysis in Relationship to Trans Life
In some ways, what we're trying to do is push back against this binary that has emerged in psychoanalytic thinking. We want to offer a more complex language and way of thinking about how anyone becomes with respect to gender or sexualityThat doesn't have to root itself in an innate core. So you see, for example, a lot of anxiety around clinicians understand themselves as friendly to trans life saying, okay, but this child has not always identified as trans.
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