Making Mountains into Molehills: A Lexicon-in-Process

Q3 Social Sciences

Studies in Gender and Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/15240657.2022.2159707

K. Downey

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Abstract

ABSTRACT To make a mountain out of a molehill is to wrestle with the scale and form of a feeling. It’s a loaded, gendered idiom, referring to behaviors deemed over-reactive (read: histrionic, hysterical). This lexicon lays out the most generative metaphors that have emerged from the intersections between my art making and nearly a decade of psychoanalysis. These metaphors come from both inside and outside of me—they are synonyms for how figure and ground are co-constitutive. Much like my experiences of being trans, a lexicon is always fruitfully in-process, its language both containing and slippery. This lexicon is also a list of apparitions. As soon as I grab an idea by its name or phrase, it disappears.

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把山变成鼹鼠丘：一个正在进行的词汇

小题大做是在与一种感觉的规模和形式作斗争。这是一个带有性别色彩的成语，指的是被认为反应过度的行为(即:夸张的、歇斯底里的)。这本词典列出了我的艺术创作和近十年的精神分析之间的交集中最具生动性的隐喻。这些隐喻既来自我的内心，也来自我的外部——它们是图形和背景如何共同构成的同义词。就像我作为跨性别者的经历一样，一本词典总是在创作过程中收获颇丰，它的语言既包含又圆滑。这个词典也是一个幽灵的列表。一旦我抓住了一个想法的名字或短语，它就消失了。

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Studies in Gender and Sexuality Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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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."