Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Editor : Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Editor : Jean Marc Tauszik, Editor : Silvia R. Acosta

Part of IPA - Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies series - more in this series

Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : July 2025
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 194
Category :
Forthcoming
Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 98120
ISBN 13 : 9781032872216
ISBN 10 : 1032872217

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Polymorphisms presents an overview of key theories, ideas and issues within psychoanalysis relating to sexual and gender diversity.

The chapters consider key topics including the Oedipus-castration complex, the link between sexuality and gender, identity, and gender violence, while also addressing queer/transgender subjectivities, countertransference, and the implicit and explicit theories that shape clinical practice. Taking an intra and interdisciplinary approach, the collection considers ideas that enrich the clinical approach while highlighting contradictions and heterogeneities, and moving away from essentialisms. As a whole, the book delimits debates and questions rather than offering definitive answers, taking the perspective that psychoanalysis is a discipline in continuous interrogation of its own propositions.

Polymorphisms: Sexual and Gender Migrations in Contemporary Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to academics of psychoanalytic studies and gender studies.

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Contemporary psychoanalysts are keen explorers of the new, intrigued by what in some ways is still waiting to be understood; they are well documented and also on average freer of prejudice than other professional categories involved in the field; finally, their research is also often creative. This is demonstrated by this splendid volume ‘Polymorphisms’, which originated as part of the ‘Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee’ of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and which offers a broad, advanced and kaleidoscopic psychoanalytic view on one of the most vibrantly debated topics in today's culture.
Stefano Bolognini; Past-President IPA

This book, updated and expanded, is a product of the First Latin American Dialogue organized by the IPA's Committee on Sexual Diversity and Gender Studies in November 2019 in Buenos Aires, is a significant contribution to the ongoing debates. It focuses on the psychoanalytic vision of sexual and gender diversity, a topic of utmost importance in the current circumstances. This publication is a key piece, actively engaging us in the necessary debates in these uncertain times.
Virginia Ungar; IPA Former President (2017-2021)

Series Preface
Leticia Glocer Fiorini

Introduction
Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Jean Marc Tauszik, Silvia Acosta

Part 1. Gender and the Oedipus Complex. The Construction of Sexed Subjectivity
1. Oedipus, Subjectivity, and Culture
Hugo Lerner

2. Oedipus… Next! A critique of heteropatriarchal psychoanalysis
Fernanda Magallanes

3. The Oedipus complex in the light of contemporary subjectivities From Thebes to XXI century
Leticia Glocer Fiorini

Comments
Silvia Acosta

Part 2. Dialogues at the Border: The Queer Position
Introduction
Jean Marc Tauszik

4. Are we perhaps all queer?
Leonardo Peskin

5. Queering Psychoanalysis: From a Queer Freud to a Trans Lacan
Patricia Gherovici

6. Trans-identities: Epistemological Problems, Binary Logic, and the Analyst´s Disphoria
Nicolas Evzonas

Part 3. the Analyst Diversity: Listening in the Analytical Session
7. Diversity and countertransference
Cláudio Laks Eizirik

8. Listening to oneself facing polymorphism
Yago Franco

9. Listening to the Rokitansky syndrome
Andrea Ikonicoff

Comments
Alejandra Vertzner Marucco

Part 4. Revisiting Patriarchy. Myths and Beliefs
Introduction
Analía Wald

10. Patriarchy revisited in the light of Afro-Brazilian religions
Alice Becker Lewkowicz

11. Reviewing patriarchy. Myths and Beliefs
Isidoro Vegh

12. The Tiresias’ blow or the use of Phallocentric Resistance in the Analytical Field
Marco Posadas

Part 5. Gender Violence. Angst Facing Uncertainty
Introduction
Luisa Acrich

13. ‘Macha’ violence
Fernando Orduz

14. Itinerary of gender violence(s): between the singular and the plural
Patricia Alkolombre

15. Violence and difference
Javier García Castiñeiras

Part 6. Identity, Gender, and Subjectivity
Introduction
Maria Cristina Fulco

16. Identity, gender, and subjectivity
Luis Hornstein

17. Binary or different?
Julio Moreno

18. Constructing identities. A proposal
Teresa Lartigue

19. Metapsychological thoughts on infancy focusing on contemporary identity issues
Mara Sverdlik

20. Trans- Adolescences – A brief communication
Sergio Lewkowicz

About the Editor(s)

Leticia Glocer Fiorini MD, is training and supervising analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA). She is current Chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, and Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires.Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD, is training and supervising analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA). She is current Chair of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, and Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires.

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Jean Marc Tauszik is a psychoanalyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the Caracas Psychoanalytic Society and co-chair for Latin America of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee and chair of the PPL platform (Latin American Psychoanalytic Thought).

Silvia R. Acosta, PhD, is a psychoanalyst at the Asociación Psicoanalítica de Cordoba, Argentina, and member of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise, Lisbon. She is a founding member of the IPA Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee. She has published papers on clinical psychoanalysis, sexual diversity and gender violence. Currently, she is the Scientific Secretary of the Annual Book of Psychoanalysis in Spanish.