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Gender Without Identity

by Avgi Saketopoulou

Rethinking how gender takes shape

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    2024 Gradiva Award shortlist

    Shortlisted for the 2024 Gradiva Award

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Rethinking how gender takes shape

Drawing on Jean Laplanche’s metapsychology and queer and trans studies, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini challenge the idea of a fixed “core gender identity.” They propose that gender is acquired, and that trauma may sometimes participate in that process. The book treats this connection as a way to examine the varied textures of gender and sexuality, not to invalidate transness or queerness. It also considers how self-understanding can develop through experiences that do not begin from a unified sense of self, and offers clinical resources for engaging with gender complexity and assumptions about gender normativity.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in psychoanalytic approaches to gender formation and trauma.
  • Those exploring queer and trans studies alongside clinical practice.
  • Psychotherapy practitioners seeking frameworks for working with gender complexity.

Themes

Gender formationTrauma and psychic lifeQueer and trans studiesPsychoanalytic practiceGender normativity

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Book overview

Gender Without Identity offers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Rooted in the metapsychology of Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini jettison "core gender identity" to propose, instead, that gender is something all subjects acquire --and that trauma sometimes has a share in that acquisition. Conceptualizing trauma alongside diverse genders and sexualities is thus not about invalidating transness and queerness, but about illuminating their textures to enable their flourishing.

 

Written for readers both in and outside psychoanalysis, Gender Without Identity argues for the ethical urgency of recognizing that wounding experiences and traumatic legacies may be spun into gender. Such "spinning" involves self-theorizations that do not proceed from a centered self, but are nevertheless critical to psychic autonomy. Saketopoulou and Pellegrini draw on these ideas to offer clinical resources for working with gender complexity and for complexifying (what is seen as) gender normativity.

 

Gender Without Identity has been short listed for the 2024 Gradiva Award of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP)

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