A Standoff, Getting Off, and Letting Oneself Off the Hook: Psychoanalytic Discourse and Trans*ness

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Andrzej Baginski

doi:10.1353/lit.2025.a971780

September 1, 2025College literature

A Standoff, Getting Off, and Letting Oneself Off the Hook: Psychoanalytic Discourse and Trans*ness

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Key Points

The review highlights critical insights into psychoanalytic discourse regarding trans*ness and its implications.
Significant works by Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini are reflected upon, emphasizing contemporary challenges in critical theory.
Lacanian and Laplanchean frameworks provide varied perspectives on the politics of psychoanalysis with trans subjects.
The discourse analysis opens pathways for deeper understanding of identity and critical theory engagement.

Implication

This review essay examines Lacanian and Laplanchean approaches to trans*ness, suggesting critical theory challenges.

Abstract

This review essay reflects on some trends in psychoanalytic discourses’ approaches to trans*ness. Assessing Lacanian and Laplanchean approaches, as well as different attempts to politicize psychoanalysis vis a vis trans* subjects, the article reads Avgi Saketopoulou’s and Ann Pellegrini’s recent book Gender Without Identity as a reflection of some of the challenges facing critical theory today.

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