Table of Contents

Chapter One: Queering Žižek
Chapter Two: No Future? Traversing the Fantasy of (Hetero)sexual Difference
Chapter Three: Žižek’s Antagonism and The Futures of Trans-Affirmative Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Chapter Four: Cavanagh and Gherovici: Toward a Transfeminist Theory of Embodiment
Chapter Five: Traversing the Atlantic, Traversing (Hetero)sexual Difference
Chapter Six: Traversing North America, Traversing (Hetero)sexual Difference
Coda: Traversing the Fantasy of Authoritarian Patriarchy
Bibliography

Promotional Information

Revises Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that psychoanalytic theorists need to go beyond (hetero)sexual difference to better register the implications of diverse sexualities and modes of embodiment.

About the Author

Chris Coffman is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. The author of Insane Passions and Gertrude Stein's Transmasculinity, she writes about modernist literary and visual culture as well as aboute psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, and transgender theories.

Reviews

An invaluable commentary on the status of gender and sexuality in Lacanian psychoanalysis. By putting contemporary Lacanians like Slavoj Žižek on the theoretical couch, the author embarks upon a riveting analysis of how we may lay the groundwork for a queer and trans-affirmative psychoanalysis. Coffman is one of the most important queer scholars writing today on subjectivity, gender and sexuality in Lacanian perspective.
*Sheila L. Cavanagh, Sociology Professor, York University, Canada*

Chris Coffman’s Queer Traversals is an essential addition to the growing field of trans psychoanalysis and should be read alongside other leaders of trans Lacanian thought such as Jay Prosser, Sheila Cavanagh, and Patricia Gherovici.
*Midwest Modern Language Association*