The Queerness of Psychoanalysis

Vanessa Sinclair is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. She is the host of Rendering Unconscious Podcast and a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. She sits on the International Advisory Board of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and is an Editorial Advisor for Parapraxis Magazine. Dr. Sinclair is the author of Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (2021) and the editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (2023) and On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2019) with Manya Steinkolern. Elisabeth Punzi is a licensed psychologist and a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Gothenburg University (GU), Sweden. She leads a project concerning heritage and health at the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, GU and teaches psychoanalytic theory, psychology of religion and qualitative research methods, and many other topics. Myriam Sauer is a PhD canditate at the Latin-America Institute of Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, as well as a writer and poet. Her primary academic interests lie in the fields of psychoanalysis, queer studies, literature, and sociology.

Introduction 1. Gird your Loins: The Transgender Psychoanalysts are Coming 2. On the Cage of Gender: Perspectives on an Ethics of Sexual Différance 3. Emptiness is the Cure for Psychoanalysis 4. Tiresias as the Patron Saint of Psychoanalysis: On the Integral Mutations of Psychoanalysis 5. H.D. & Bryher: Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and Gender 6. Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance 7. Transsexuality at the Origin of Desire: Or, Schreber’s Satanic Handjob 8. Sissy Dance $1: The More and More of Gender 9. Dragging Psychoanalysis 10. Erotophobia: Or, Isn’t Everyone A Pervert? 11. Freud Would Not Be Queer Without Us: An Autotheory on Psychoanalysis as Queer Praxis 12. Credo: So Our Lives Glide On