Overview
The greater part of this book focuses on a critical analysis of the logics and ways of thinking supporting both explicit and implicit theories of sexual difference and the masculine/feminine pair. These theories may be private or collective; conscious, preconscious, or unconscious. They impact heavily on interpretations and constructions made in analytic practice, while they also affect transference-countertransference patterns. This conceptual analysis reviews the Freudian oeuvre as well as the work of other significant authors, post-Freudian and contemporary, that have contributed specifically to this topic. The concept of sexual difference contains a persistent problem: binary, dichotomous thinking and its blind spots and aporias. For this reason, the author has turned to other epistemologies that offer novel forms to think about the same problems, such as the paradigm of hyper-complexity, as well as thinking at intersections and limits between different categories.
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Author: Leticia Glocer Fiorini
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.570kg
ISBN: 9780367103996
ISBN 10: 0367103990
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 14 June 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Preface , Introduction , Masculine–Feminine , A transdisciplinary view with intradisciplinary effects , The sexed subject and current realities— their impact on conceptualisations of sexual difference , Freud's epistemic context and discourse , The Oedipus–Castration complex and sexual difference , Freudian logic—meta-theories on sexual difference , Post-Freudian and contemporary controversies , Otherness in the field of sexual difference , Itinerant Sexualities , Sexual and gender migrations , Homosexualities , Unconventional parentalities and subjective production , Bodies, fictions, and desires in contemporary maternities and paternities , Sexual Difference—Towards A Possible Deconstruction , Desire for a child: ideals, discourses, and mandates , Power relations and sexual difference , Sexual difference and binary logic , Deconstructing the paternal function—paternal function or third-party function? , Conclusions and openings
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In this book of crucial importance, Leticia Glocer Fiorini, anchored in a deep knowledge of the Freudian corpus, tackles fundamental contemporary questions. Combining a rare transcultural erudition with a concise and clear style, the author revisits the question of the difference between the sexes. She thus links up developments of contemporary psychoanalysis with recent philosophical and anthropological contributions. These rigorous analyses enable her, among other things, to shift the 'enigma of the feminine' on to the enigma of alterity and the question of the father on to that of a third function. With this book, Glocer Fiorini has opened up a genuine nterdisciplinary debate. -- (02/27/2017) Sexual Difference in Debate is a remarkable book in which Leticia Glocer Fiorini shows the evolution of psychoanalytic thinking concerning sexuality, and describes her own original contributions for a better understanding of sexual difference. In this sense, her book is both rooted in classical psychoanalytic formulations and presents a contemporary and fresh look at this challenging field, which is at the core of psychoanalytic theory and practice. I strongly recommend it, both to seasoned analysts and to those who are beginners in our field. The elegant style and the convincing evidence displayed masterfully by Glocer Fiorini are a source of stimulation to improve our theoretical understanding and our clinical skills. -- (02/27/2017)
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