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Sex Reinvented by Gender
BooksSex Reinvented by Gender.
Érès, 2016, 223 pages.
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Foreword by Joan W. Scott.
Sex Reinvented by Gender. Vincent Bourseul offers a new and original perspective to the field of gender studies and psychoanalysis. He proposes a psychoanalytic definition of sex, gender, and sexual identity — usable in gender studies — which rejects the simple opposition between sex (bodies) and gender (social roles referring to these bodies).
Sex, sexual difference, and sexuality constitute enigmas that arise from both conscious reflection and unconscious processes, which never operate in unison but always in tension — the rebellious unconscious undermining any attempt at a reasonable conclusion.
Placing the enigma of sex at the center of our thinking means that we must interpret gender as it is observed in action, as it is articulated as providing an answer to the enigma, and not as a known and fixed given. It is here that Bourseul’s conception of gender opens up and returns to the practice of psychoanalysis through interpretive approaches that emphasize the necessity of listening to what the patient has to say, rather than imposing preformatted ideas concerning identity, pathology, or perversion. Sex Reinvented by Gender.
Summary – sex reinvented by gender
Chapter 1 – On the Gender of Psychoanalysis in Question
Appearances
Rhizomes
Transpective
Chapter 2 – Clinical Aspects of Gender
The Pregnant Man
Marc
Identity Autopsy
Chapter 3 – Effects of Knowledge
Sidonie, a Woman of Gender
Writings on Sexes
Tiresias, Today
Press article: “In the Permanent Reinvention of Sexes”, Isabelle Boisclair, Le Devoir, January 2017.
