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

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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*