Agora Speaker Series: “Lacanian Anxieties: Trans* Surgeries, Countertransference, and the Fantasy of the Whole”
January 31, 2020 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Much Lacanian psychoanalysis establishes a metonymic link between transsexuality and psychosis and that the demand for sexual reassignment surgery reveals a (necessarily doomed) fantasy of completeness, of fully inhabiting "the other sex." This lecture explores how the designation of psychosis reflects less the status of the trans*subject but rather the countertransference of the analyst. It therefore resituates the trans* subject as a subject of desire rather than demand.
This lecture, part of the Agora Speaker Series is free and open to the public.
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Location and Address
208B Cathedral of Learning (CL)
Presenter
Matthew Lovett, University of Pittsburgh
Cosponsored with Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies Program
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