Seminar at Psychoanalytic Inquiry: Disrupting Transphobia within Institutional Psychoanalysis, March 15 & April 12
The Transgender Psychoanalysts Are Coming!: Disrupting Transphobia within Institutional Psychoanalysis
Please note that to allow for a rich and vulnerable exploration this seminar will be limited to 15 participants. To allow more people to attend the same seminar will be held on 2 dates:
March 15th at 4:00 – 5:30 PM PT
April 12th at 9:00 – 10:30 PT AM PT
(1.5 hours)
The reading will be provided and participants are expected to read the chapter before attending so we may use our time to engage with the material.
Required Reading
Wiggins, T. (2024). Gird your loins: The transgender psychoanalysts are coming!. E. Punzi, V. Sinclair, & M. Sauer (Eds.) The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Contemporary Times. Routledge.
Description
To “gird your loins” is a common idiom with a comical edge, a metonymic and thus anticipatory expression. It is both a gendered and sexed declaration, meant to warn of upcoming difficulty or strenuous undertaking. In this seminar, participants will read and discuss Dr. Wiggins’ recently published chapter in The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Contemporary Times, considering how the institution of psychoanalysis has been girding its loins against transgender subjects since its inception, despite some of its most fundamentally queer and gender nonconforming premises. Through a pronounced attention to genitality, binarism, and a dense history of homo- and trans-phobic cases, clinical psychoanalysis has almost exclusively cast transgender subjectivities into the realm of either perversion or psychosis. This chapter contributes to a growing body of scholarship that challenges psychoanalysis’ fundamentally destructive quotidian clinical transphobia. Additionally, it uniquely interrogates the under-considered issue of transgender people’s systemic exclusion from the status of “psychoanalyst.”
This seminar will provide an opportunity for clinicians andacademics to openly examine the state of the profession and its enduring psychoanalytic cis-tuation. Together, we will foreground the importance of trans-led interventions and collaboratively imagine tangible actions to take within your own psychoanalytic community.
Series: Decentralized Learning Experiences
A learning experience can be almost anything, and any licensed clinician can propose one. It can be about a paper, a book or a movie. It can tackle an idea, such as field theory or dream analysis or focus on the work of a theorist. The format can be didactic or it can be a leaderless seminar or a one-hour conversation. It can be a one-off event or a series of weekly, biweekly, or monthly meetings. Currently, this program is in its pilot stage, so certain limits may apply.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s Learning Experiences are free.
This event will be recorded and available to watch afterward through our Presentation Vault.
