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Queer Traversals Chris Coffman

Queer Traversals By Chris Coffman

Queer Traversals by Chris Coffman


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Queer Traversals: Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories by Chris Coffman

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.

Queer Traversals Reviews

An invaluable commentary on the status of gender and sexuality in Lacanian psychoanalysis. By putting contemporary Lacanians like Slavoj Žižek 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 *

About Chris Coffman

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Queering Žižek Chapter Two: No Future? Traversing the Fantasy of (Hetero)sexual Difference Chapter Three: Žižek’s Antagonism and The Futures of Trans-Affirmative Lacanian Psychoanalysis Chapter Four: Cavanagh and Gherovici: Toward a Transfeminist Theory of Embodiment Chapter Five: Traversing the Atlantic, Traversing (Hetero)sexual Difference Chapter Six: Traversing North America, Traversing (Hetero)sexual Difference Coda: Traversing the Fantasy of Authoritarian Patriarchy Bibliography

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NPB9781350200005
9781350200005
135020000X
Queer Traversals: Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories by Chris Coffman
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2022-01-27
256
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