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Genders & Sexualities
Genders & Sexualities
May 19, 2023 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Back Classroom
Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2022-23, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Danny Gellersen, LICSW FIPA
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May 19, 2023 — Gender Identity, performativity and the work of Judith Butler
[41 pages]
Judith Butler’s concept of Gender Melancholia/performativity has been reworked several times by her and others, her contributions to the conversation on Gender cannot be understated. Lynne Layton wrote an interesting Relational critique of these concepts, and these readings should be very interesting for you as a pair. I suggest Reading Butler’s article first, so you can fully grasp how Layton built out her arguments.
Butler, J. (1995). Melancholy Gender—Refused Identification. Psychoanal. Dial., 5(2):165-180.
Layton, L. (1997) The Doer behind the Deed: Tensions and Intersections between Butler’s Vision of Performativity and Relational Psychoanalysis. Gender and Psychoanalysis 2:131-155
