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This text is part of a series on psychoanalytic approaches to trans issues that began as a discussion of Patricia...Read More

This text is part of a series on psychoanalytic approaches to trans issues that began as a discussion of P atricia Gherovici’s Transgender Psychoanalysis but also aims at tackling the issue within current Transgender Studies more in general. — On April 20, 2016, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek described “transgenderism” as an attempt to undermine sexual difference . In other words, he contended that transpeople are reducing what is, for Lacanian psychoanalysis, an unavoidable sexual impasse to an identity-based human rights discourse (that fits nicely into the neo-liberal capita

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