The Clinic of Gender in Psychoanalysis: Endgame (2025)

The Clinic of Gender in Psychoanalysis: Endgame

Published online, January 2025.

For nearly twenty years, the most visible part of my psychoanalytic research has been dedicated to so-called gender issues. Many years, texts, and public addresses have been devoted to questioning, proposing, and attempting to understand, at the risk of intellectual wandering and innovation.

I have learned a great deal, with enthusiasm. But I am primarily a practitioner, before being a researcher, if I may say so.

When I began this path, addressing gender in psychoanalysis was not very visible. While the psychoanalytic community seemed quite hermetic or opposed to the arrival of this new subject, a certain disinterest allowed one to pursue it without alarming anyone. This was not satisfactory, but it allowed for serious research to be conducted.

Since then, continuing to advance in this field exposes both practice and individuals to numerous hazards that warrant caution, or even defense. These issues have become increasingly problematic for the psychoanalytic community. This is unsatisfactory and not without consequences.

As a practitioner, I choose to preserve my practice. As a researcher, I am bringing to an end what I called in 2006, to guide my work, The Clinic of Gender in Psychoanalysis.

All established works remain available here: articles, thesis, books, tables and diagrams, up to the three episodes of the attempted conversations.

Volume 2 of The Clinic of Gender in Psychoanalysis (2014-2025) will be published in 2025, under the title From Gender to A-Sexuation, a Psychoanalytic Interpretation.

Vincent Bourseul, January 2025.