Polymorphisms (IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies)

Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.

The chapters consider key topics including the Oedipus-castration complex, the link between sexuality and gender, identity, and gender violence, while also addressing queer/transgender subjectivities, countertransference, and the implicit and explicit theories that shape clinical practice. Taking an intra and interdisciplinary approach, the collection considers ideas that enrich the clinical approach while highlighting contradictions and heterogeneities, and moving away from essentialisms. As a whole, the book delimits debates and questions rather than offering definitive answers, taking the perspective that psychoanalysis is a discipline in continuous interrogation of its own propositions.

Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to academics of psychoanalytic studies and gender studies.

Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD, is training and supervising analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA). She is current Chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, and Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires.

Jean Marc Tauszik is a psychoanalyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society and co-chair for Latin America of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee and chair of the PPL platform (Latin American Psychoanalytic Thought).

Silvia R. Acosta, PhD, is a psychoanalyst at the Asociación Psicoanalítica de Cordoba, Argentina, and member of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise, Lisbon. Currently, she is the Scientific Secretary of the Annual Book of Psychoanalysis in Spanish.