Gender as Lint Collector

Gozlan, Oren

doi:10.1080/00797308.2021.1975458

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“…To understand and help our patients, we find particularly enlightening Willa France's theory that all gender development involves trauma (France, W. personal communication, April 13, 2023). The work of Saketopoulou and others (Ehrensaft, 2014(Ehrensaft, , 2017Gozlan, 2008Gozlan, , 2022Saketopoulou, 2014Saketopoulou, , 2020 express related views on gender development. Based on these theoretical advances, we conceptualize homophobia as a failed psychic attempt to solve the problems associated with narcissistic wounds and traumatic discontinuities in relation to gender and sexuality.…”

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Fashioning hate: Driving the runway of desire

Goldenberg

Brown²

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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Sexist and homophobic attitudes are an individual's expression of the dominant sociocultural position which endorses sexism and anti‐homosexuality. We contend that misogyny and homophobia are pathological symptoms representing the internalization of these malignant social values. First, we explain that homosexuality (and other non‐binary identities), though previously experiencing widespread condemnation, are not and never were mental disorders. Instead, it is homophobia ‐ the fear of homosexuality—that reflects psychopathology and, ultimately, prejudice. We argue that these beliefs, in both straight and gay men, are related to fear and anxiety about one's own projected and gendered aggression. We maintain that they reflect the unsuccessful and incomplete resolution of the normative conflicts met during gender identity development. Essential to all healthy gender identity development is the childhood experience of attuned and accepting mirroring of the child by the parents and the culture. Without this regular experience of mutuality, recognition, and approval, especially regarding their most basic gender identity, children who are at risk develop ego‐syntonic misogynistic and homophobic beliefs. We include a case illustration of a gay‐identified man who was wounded and traumatized by homophobia and uses the concept and experience of homophobia as a defense.

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Fashioning hate: Driving the runway of desire

Goldenberg

Brown²

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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“…Instead, gender can be conceptualized as putting together a history. Here we may imagine gender as a "lint collector"(Gozlan 2022), continuously accumulating part objects, impressions, and registrations of meaning in creating itself.…”

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Adolescent Ruthlessness and the Transitioning Of The Analyst’s Mind

Gozlan¹

2022

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Features of ruthlessness may come into play in the encounter between adolescents who come into the therapeutic space with clear and precise demands to be supported through their gender transition. Winnicott’s concept of ruthlessness, extended from the infant-mother matrix to the emotional situation of the clinic, allows a consideration of the conditions under which the analyst can think about adolescent demands. These conditions involve the desire of both patient and analyst for certitude and the analyst’s urgency to respond, as well as the adolescent’s contradictory desires to both destroy and create gender. The work of Sally Swartz, who brought to Winnicott’s conception a notion of ruthlessness in protest, helps us consider the qualities of ruthlessness in constituting gender. A snippet of work with a nonbinary patient shows how questions of gender cannot be understood apart from the intersubjective transferential field. Tying ruthlessness to the enigma of desire illuminates the emotional situation of the clinical encounter between the nonbinary or trans patient and the analyst, a situation that is also libidinal. An analytic move from the question of gender identity to the realm of an emotional situation allows the analyst to meet adolescent ruthlessness. This meeting is an ethical attempt to understand the other, but also reveals one’s resistance to giving up something in order to understand.

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Searching for Bedrocks: Gender, Biology, and the Question of Ontology

Wallerstein¹

2022

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Gender as Lint Collector

Cited by 4 publications

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Fashioning hate: Driving the runway of desire

Fashioning hate: Driving the runway of desire

Adolescent Ruthlessness and the Transitioning Of The Analyst’s Mind

Searching for Bedrocks: Gender, Biology, and the Question of Ontology

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