Essay Question

Lacan’s model of castration is different from that of Freud. Elaborate this difference, and assess the implications of Lacan’s model for understanding gender and (trans)sexuality.

REQUIRED READINGS

Lacan, J. (2006). The mirror-stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. In B. Fink (Trans.),Écrits. (pp 75-81). New York & London: W.W Norton.

George, S., (2018) "Jouissance and Discontent: A Meeting of Race, Psychoanalysis and American Slavery." Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Special Issue on "Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions in Culture and Politics." Sept. 2018, Vol. 23, Issue 3, p.267-289.

Bailly, L. (2009). Lacan. Oxford: Oneworld (Chapter 2)

Gherovici, P. (2017) Depathologizing Trans: From Symptom to Sinthome. Transgender Studies Quarterly: 4, (3–4) 534-555

Freud, S., (1905) Infantile Sexuality.Chapter 2 of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.

Noreen Giffney (2017) Introduction to 'Clinical Encounters in Sexuality': Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory. Punctum Books.

ADDITIONAL READING

Winnicott, D.W., (1960). The Theory of Parent-Infant Relationship. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 41: 585-595.

Lewis, G., (2009) Birthing Racial Difference; Conversation with my mother and others. Studies in the Maternal.