Seminar Leaders: Kristine Klement and Lindsay Barton
Course Description
The seminars will focus on the multiple facets of historical and modern psychoanalytic theory with an eye toward clinical practice. Matters such as gender embodiment, gender variation, gender regulation and perversion will be addressed. Gendered experience and identity will be viewed through a complex and nonlinear lens focusing on sexual subjectivity in the analytic dyad and psychic life. This course takes an intersectional approach to the impacts of patriarchy on cis and transgender women, men and non-binary people, including domestic and gender-based violence.
Course Objectives
Candidates will:
- Learn about the emergence of psychoanalytic work on gender and sexuality within the context of the history of theory and clinical work from various schools of thought (1.1, 1.3, 1.5).
- Examine developmental issues in relation to gender and sexuality to include gender identity and sexual difference (1.1, 1.3,1.5).
- Learn about the dilemmas of gender variance to include contemporary views on sexual orientation with consideration to the socio-cultural context (1.5, 2.2, 1.4).
- Enhance and evaluate professional practice by undertaking critical self reflection; identifying strengths as a therapist, and areas for development; and (3.8); assisting patients with needs for advocacy and support; and (1.2) integrating knowledge of the impact of trauma on psychological functioning.
- (1.3) Reviews CRPO Intimate partner Violence and “disclosing information to prevent harm.”
Seminar 1 – Introduction – The Enigma of Sexuality
Required Readings
Freud, S. (1905) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 7:123-246
Scarfone, D. (2014). The Three Essays and the Meaning of the Infantile Sexual in Psychoanalysis. Psychoanal Q., 83(2):327-344.
Seminar 2 – Sexual Difference
Required Readings
Freud S. (1933) Femininity: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. S.E., 112-135.
Shoshana Felman. (1993) “Competing Pregnancies” in What does a Woman Want? Reading and Sexual Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 1993.
Seminar 3 – Femininities
Required Readings
Riviere, J. (1929) Womanliness as a Masquerade. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 10:303-313
Kristeva, J. (2004) Some Observations on Female Sexuality. Annual of Psychoanalysis 32:59-68
Chodorow, N. J. (1974), Family structure and feminine personality. In: Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press and Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1989.
Recommended Reading
Chodorow, N. J. (2000) Reflections on The Reproduction of Mothering—Twenty Years Later. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 1:337-348
Seminar 4 – Masculinities
Required Readings
Diamond, M. J. (2015) The Elusiveness of Masculinity: Primordial Vulnerability, Lack, and the Challenges of Male Development. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 84:47-102
Seminar 5 – Rethinking Oedipus
Required Readings
Corbett, K. (2001). Nontraditional Family Romance. Psychoanal Q., 70:599-624
Benjamin, J. (2004). Beyond Doer and Done to: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness. Psychoanal. Q., 73(1):5-46.
Seminar 6 – “Mourning the Body as Bedrock:” Thinking Developmentally with Transgender Patients
Required Readings
Avgi Saketopoulou (2014) Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients Analytically. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 62: 773-806
Dimen, M. (2014). Both Given & Made: Commentary on Saketopoulou. JAPA, 62:807-813
Galatzer-Levy, R. (2014). Exploring a Complex Systems Map of Gender: Commentary on Saketopoulou. JAPA, 62:815-821
Saketopoulou, A. (2014). When the Body Propositions Gender: Reply to Commentaries. JAPA, 62:823-833
Seminar 7 – Fantasy in the Transference/Countertransference
Required Readings
Hansbury, G. (2017) The Masculine Vaginal: Working with Queer Men’s Embodiment at the Transgender Edge. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 65:1009-1031
Wilson, M. (2017) Body and Symbol: Introduction to Hansbury and Commentators. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 65:1005-1008
Saketopoulou, A. (2017) Between Freud’s Second and Third Essays on Sexuality: Commentary on Hansbury. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 65:1033-1048
Moss, D. (2017) Pussy Riot: Commentary on Hansbury. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 65:1049-1059
González, F. J. (2017) The Edge is a Horizon: Commentary on Hansbury. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 65:1061-1073
