Book Discussion | Gender Without Identity: Recognizing Trauma
Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 7:00 pm
Authors Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini discuss their new book., GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY.
Rooted in the metapsychology of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies, Saketopoulou and Pellegrini offer an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. They jettison “core gender identity” to propose, instead, that gender is something all subjects acquire -- and that trauma sometimes has a share in that acquisition. Gender Without Identity argues for the ethical urgency of recognizing that wounding experiences and traumatic legacies may be spun into gender. Such “spinning” involves self-theorizations that do not proceed from a centered self, but are nevertheless critical to psychic autonomy.
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