In this essential book, Oren Gozlan tackles the notion of gender from a perspective that is crucial to understanding its effects on subjective construction. His sharp reflections go beyond the simplifications and stereotypes of binary categories, approaching a complex point of view that transcends paralyzing certainties and comfortable prevailing knowledge.
He focuses on being able to inhabit uncertainties and contradictions, including what remains unspeakable, uncanny, in clinical practice, teaching, and reading/writing. His proposals illuminate the polyphonic condition of gender, not as identity but in situation and in becoming, symbolically intertwined with an aesthetic and an ethic of waiting and learning from experience.
Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Former Chair of IPA 'Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee', Former President of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association
Oren Gozlans Gender: A Contemporary Introduction offers a postmodern perspective on efforts to try and make sense of gender. In doing so, its approach is more complex than currently ubiquitous political efforts to reducegenders meaning(s) to genital appearance and chromosomes. Here, instead, the reader is invited to enter a world populated by psychoanalysts, feminists and queer theorists, a world where gender can be hypothesized but never known in an absolute way. In this regard, this volume is a creative psychoanalysts invitation to forestall premature attribution of meaning(s) to genderwhile confronting ones own anxiety of uncertainty about the subject.
Jack Drescher, MD, Training & Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, Recipient, 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for International Work on Gender & Sexuality
