{"title":"Uncreated Gender and Interpsychic Overkill","authors":"Daniel G. Butler","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1961479","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Amir’s dialectic of continuous and emergent gender is reviewed. Uncreated gender is posited as the excess of that dialectic. Male pronouns are questioned for a patient who lacks a gendered self through which to claim those pronouns as their own. Interpsychic overkill is defined as a process in which psychoanalytic epistemologies overkill a patient who is already psychopolitically deadened.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1961479","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Amir’s dialectic of continuous and emergent gender is reviewed. Uncreated gender is posited as the excess of that dialectic. Male pronouns are questioned for a patient who lacks a gendered self through which to claim those pronouns as their own. Interpsychic overkill is defined as a process in which psychoanalytic epistemologies overkill a patient who is already psychopolitically deadened.
期刊介绍:
Beginning in the final two decades of the 20th century, the study of gender and sexuality has been revived from a variety of directions: the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies have all contributed to renewed fascination with those powerfully formative aspects of subjectivity that fall within the rubric of "gender" and "sexuality." Clinicians, for their part, have returned to gender and sexuality with heightened sensitivity to the role of these constructs in the treatment situation, including the richly variegated ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality enter into our understandings of "normality" and "pathology."