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Post-patriarchal, Post-heteronormative and Postcolonial Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis for All

Author(s) : Débora Tajer

Reviews and Endorsements

I wholeheartedly endorse this book. Necessary because psychoanalysis must reconsider whether the categories it has used to understand gender and sexuality still account for the subjectivities of our century, Psychoanalysis for All is a vital contribution. Many conceptual tools that could have been revolutionary have become conservative and normative. Not to mention the fact that psychoanalysis has carried a normative bias since its inception. That's why Débora Tajer proposes a psychoanalysis that is both post-patriarchal, post-heteronormative, and post-colonial. Affiliated with a powerful and creative Argentine tradition of articulating psychoanalysis and feminism, Professor Tajer offers new theoretical and clinical elements for a psychoanalysis that addresses the challenges and difficulties of our time.
Jorge Reitter, author of Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis: Oedipus Gay

Psychoanalysis for All is a courageous book. Debora Tajer criticizes conservative aspects of psychoanalysis based on colonial, patriarchal and heteronormative bases, without, however, renouncing her passion for this theoretical-clinical work and its transformative power. The experience of a psychoanalytic practice with a gender perspective allows us to face changes in bonds, ideals, identities, sexual practices, work and politics. It is a book that invites young analysts to continue to believe in transformation through words and for experienced analysts to remember to always live up to the subjectivity of their time.
Patricia Porchat, Psychoanalyst. Professor at the State University of São Paulo

This original and timely book lucidly demonstrates how psychoanalysis, as well as contributing to colonial and patriarchal gendered oppression, is vital to undoing the psychic damage this does. Through meticulous clinical and conceptual analysis, Debora Tajer persuasively shows what postcolonial, feminist and trans-supportive psychoanalytic practice looks like, as grounded in and engaging with local material-political conditions and practices. This vital contribution revises what therapeutic work should and can be. It should be read by all who counsellors and psychotherapists.
Erica Burman, Group Analyst and Professor of Education, University of Manchester

Debora Tajer’s book brings to an English-speaking readership important contributions to psychoanalysis of the Argentine School of Psychoanalysis and Gender. She explores the marks of patriarchy, heteronormativity, and coloniality within traditional psychoanalytic theory and clinical process and develops a gender-conscious psychoanalytic interpretation of contemporary gender roles, sexualities, and family forms. Tajer shows how Argentine psychoanalysis has been impacted by militant political struggles for gender equality in her country, and illustrates the relationship between subjectivity and power in the work of two prominent Argentine psychoanalysts, Silvia Bleichmar and Gilou García Reynoso.
Nancy Caro Hollander, Ph.D. Research Psychoanalyst. Member, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Faculty, NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Professor Emerita of History, California State University

In this excellent book, Post-patriarchal, Post-heteronormative and Postcolonial Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalysis for All, Debora Tajer offers a deep dive into theoretical and clinical issues from a psychoanalytic and gender perspective. The implications for our understanding of changing femininities and masculinities, new family and relationship configurations and changes in sexualities and gender identities are explored. It considers socio-historical changes, particularly since the fourth wave of feminist empowerment in the last decade. This book is important for the psychoanalytic clinician entering contemporary clinical scenarios. It will be an enrichment for readers interested in this crucial topic.
Patricia Alkolombre, Ph.D. Chair of Women and Psychoanalysis Committee, International Psychoanalytic Association, COWAP IPA President

In this remarkable book, Débora Tajer introduces her thoughts on gender and diversity, changes in family organization, trans-infancy as well as in the feminine condition and masculinity. Beyond traditional thinking, the author focuses on a clinical perspective facing the need to make transformations of the psychoanalytical approach to those changes. On this journey she proposes that contemporary psychoanalysis should be able to understand diverse subjectivities in order to contribute to a better theoretic-clinical comprehension of those that do not correspond to heterosexual and patriarchal norms. I highly recommend this book to psychoanalysts and other readers interested in this topic.
Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Current chair of the “Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee” of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Former President of the Argentine Psychoanalytical Association