From Gender to A-sexuation

From Gender to A-sexuation

A Psychoanalytic Interpretation.

Since Freud and Lacan, psychoanalysis has never ceased to explore the meanders of the sexual and its subjective constructions. But what becomes of psychoanalysis in the era of gender? What are the effects of gender theory on clinical practice and psychoanalytic theory? This second volume of Gender Clinical Practice in Psychoanalysis extends the reflection begun in Sex Reinvented by Gender, by questioning contemporary mutations of gendered and sexual identities.

Vincent Bourseul proposes an innovative reading where a-sexuation emerges as a perversion of the phallic, a path outside the traditional frameworks of sexuation that reopens the majority perversion, that of the Phallus (patriarchy), to the critique of its torments. Drawing on clinical practice and the most current theoretical elaborations, this book puts Freudian and Lacanian concepts in tension with the advances of queer and trans theories. Certain theoretical advances emerge and organize themselves throughout the research, relaunching conceptual elaboration on sex, the sexual, enjoyments, and sexuations until the emergence of four new discourses (trans, environmentalist, feminist, identity-based) and two fantasies (heteros-patriarch, a-patride) to reveal the shrinking skin that is patriarchy; from the necessary exclusive to the necessary inclusive; from father-version to a-version.

Between the deconstruction of norms and the invention of new figures of desire, From Gender to A-sexuation is a useful work for anyone interested in the incessant transformations of the libido and the formations of the unconscious in contemporary society. Provided, however, that one does not shrink from the irreverent wandering of analytical thought.