{"title":"Gender Transitioning and Variance in Children and Adolescents: Some Temporal and Ethical Considerations","authors":"Eve Watson","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.1975460","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper considers how a psychoanalytic approach is positioned to listen empathetically to gender variance. Sexuality for children and adolescents is a site of both intense curiosity and fluidity and it is not unusual for an intensive interrogation of subjectivity to be directed through questions of gender and sexuality. But psychoanalysis diverges from advocacy-based and affirmative approaches today by approaching gender identity as informed by a question that is driving a gender-based answer. Hence, it allows time in analytic work for a question to emerge that a gender position or identity may be answering. This is an ethical approach that supports a space for desire that is not altogether reducible to identity, and is premised on the impossibility of satisfactorily reconciling mind and body in all forms of identity.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"75 1","pages":"184 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.1975460","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This paper considers how a psychoanalytic approach is positioned to listen empathetically to gender variance. Sexuality for children and adolescents is a site of both intense curiosity and fluidity and it is not unusual for an intensive interrogation of subjectivity to be directed through questions of gender and sexuality. But psychoanalysis diverges from advocacy-based and affirmative approaches today by approaching gender identity as informed by a question that is driving a gender-based answer. Hence, it allows time in analytic work for a question to emerge that a gender position or identity may be answering. This is an ethical approach that supports a space for desire that is not altogether reducible to identity, and is premised on the impossibility of satisfactorily reconciling mind and body in all forms of identity.
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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children. Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.
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