Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Gender

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Gender comprehensively covers psychoanalytic concepts and perspectives touching on major debates that have led to arguments, discussions, and considerations of gender, uncovering the topical groundwork, and predicting future directions.

The book highlights the broad interface and myriad reciprocities between gender and psychoanalysis, putting diverse psychoanalytic perspectives in dialogue with one another. With an emphasis on the role of the unconscious in gender identity formation, it critically examines today’s combative discursive context. An international team of contributors explore the global scope of the debate, current clinical practice, the polarized political context. They lay out with precision the theoretical underpinnings of the social and cultural aspects of sex, gender, sexuality, love, desire, sexual identity, race, identity politics, and the controversies surrounding them. Thinking beyond the normative, Oedipal, and phallic landscape, transcending sex and gender binaries, this handbook radically expands the current critical frame of reference. It addresses gender and sexuality, oppression, transgenerational trauma, the embodied effects of the global climate crisis, postcolonial and non-Western perspectives, and queer and trans psychoanalysis—establishing an enduring reference in gender and psychoanalysis.

This essential book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, and therapists. It will also be an indispensable reference for students in the humanities and researchers of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, gender, literature, film, philosophy, sociology, queer studies, and women studies, among others.