Report of SITE Transgender, Gender, and Psychoanalysis Conference

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Page 662-667

DOI: 10.1215/23289252-4190037

This article reviews the 2017 conference, “Transgender, Gender, and Psychoanalysis,” organized by the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and held at the Freud Museum in London. The event brought together clinicians, scholars, activists, and artists interested in putting psychoanalytic ideas into conversation with transgender issues and experiences. This review highlights interesting presentations, controversies that occurred, and theoretical problems that were explored, especially surrounding the relationship between transgender studies and psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference.

1 Nov 2017