{"title":"“I’d Have Divorced My Husband If Not for Korean Dramas” – Vietnamese Women’s Consumption of Television Romance and Melancholia","authors":"Thi Gammon","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2097483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2097483","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on the Freudian concept of melancholia and David L. Eng and Shinhee Han’s contemporary approach to the concept, this article discusses how Vietnamese married women consume romantic South Korean television dramas as a means to deal with unacknowledged and unresolved loss, or the psychic condition of melancholia. Through a case study of melancholia in a female research participant and a discussion of Vietnamese women’s marital lives, the article proposes two arguments. First, romantic consumption can be a private way for Vietnamese married women suffering from restricted freedom due to societal overemphasis on their familial duties to cope with melancholia. Second, the mass romantic culture, as a melancholic genre, allows married women to collectively mourn lost emotions such as the feeling of being young and being in love. The article makes a theoretical contribution by utilising Freud’s melancholia and Eng and Han’s contemporary approach to the concept for its empirical research. It also enriches an academic understanding of melancholia through its application of the concept to married women’s psychic lives within a contemporary Vietnamese context.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46946700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemsex: Reintroducing Sexuality in the Pleasure and Pain of the Infans","authors":"A. Poulios","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2097472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2097472","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Chemsex is the rising phenomenon of recreational drug use during sex among queer people, involving a certain mindset and particular substances. Chemsex users face difficulties already noted in the psychoanalytic addiction treatment literature. However, chemsex also raises specific clinical challenges regarding queer sexuality. This article mainly draws on theories by Lacan, Aulagnier, Laplanche, Saketopoulou, and Olivienstein, and my clinical work with a specific patient. It argues that chemsex can lead to the rupture of formations akin to the false self used to inscribe subjectivity into a precariously heteronormative social bond, in a way that is akin to Zaltzman’s anarchic drive. Despite entailing numerous risks, it is also a means to cling to life, unbinding pleasure from inhibitions faced by queer analysands, such as negotiation of abuse or HIV status. Moreover, chemsex itself can be a vehicle of change, should the therapist admit it as a means of exploring sexuality or even, as McDougall suggests regarding addictions, as a solution to archaic anxieties. This can happen, as with my patient, in tandem with therapy and the processing of the challenging transference-countertransference it entails. In giving new meaning to this patient’s subjectivity and incorporating past traumatic experience, a more fulfilling life has the potential to be attained.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47525437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Forward: Giving Voice to Partners in a Relationship With Those in Gender Transition","authors":"D. Maynard","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2072576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072576","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How do partners of those in transition make sense of the possibility that their relationship history may become erased, while racing to embrace their future as an intact couple? This article acknowledges the realities many partners experience as their transgender and/or nonbinary partner transitions, which often evokes feelings of loss and possible grief. By navigating grief, based on Kübler-Ross and Kessler’s book On Grief and Grieving, partners learn to heal the loss of their past and accept their unknown future. The article also focuses on sharing insights into the partner’s journey. This knowledge can help mental health professionals support their clients through the various challenges facing some partners of those in transition as they embark on a successful relationship. The material presented and the recommendations offered are derived from the input of one-to-one interviews and written responses of cisgender partners and workshop participation by multiracial and gender-diverse populations. Partners communicated their personal experiences in hopes of providing additional information to clinicians who serve the transgender population. This article affords an opportunity for therapists and academic scholars to view the transition through the lens of the partner. 1 1 The author claims reservation of all copyrights to all her published and unpublished material. APA 1.15.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45815821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity Process Treatment Model for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients","authors":"Marty A. Cooper, Seojung Jung, Jamie L. Gordon","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2072574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072574","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Identity Process Treatment Model for transgender and gender-nonconforming clients addresses an important development in the identity development models. Specifically, this theory and treatment model provide an alternative or adjunct to existing stage theories. Unique to this model is the ability to understand how the client’s identity is impacted by their day-to-day experiences. We propose that clients adopt an identity style that they rely upon in most situations. In this model we discuss three different identity styles and the style that is expected to be the most adaptable and to promote psychological health across time. A six-step treatment model is provided to guide clinicians providing service to transgender and gender-nonconforming clients. These steps include an assessment period, conceptualizing the client’s identity style, providing psychoeducation to both the client and support system, working toward a more balanced identity style, and consolidating the learning.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46148808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"White Teachers","authors":"H. Eaton","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2072579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072579","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The author reflects on some of her disturbingly racialized experiences working as a White learning mentor and carer for vulnerable children from a variety of backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43449972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trust in Uncertainty: The Therapeutic Structure of Possibility, Turning Points, and the Future of Psychotherapy with Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-diverse Individuals","authors":"K. Rachlin","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2072572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072572","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Therapists are conduits of possibility as we hold a vision of what is possible for people who come to us seeking support and change. Gender specialists help transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGNB) people to increase the possibilities in their lives. Therapists facilitate positive change—on an individual level, through therapeutic practice, and on a macrolevel, by being involved in the community of psychotherapists and in the field of transgender health. As we approach our work, we reflect upon the limitations of our knowledge and vision to be realistic and to allow for possibility. We respect uncertainty on an individual level because people are complex and change over time as the world around them changes, and we respect uncertainty on a cultural level because the language and concepts of gender change and evolve across time and place. Cases are presented to illustrate the use of psychotherapy to address uncertainty and create possibility for TGNB people.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41737670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plenary Panel — Transformations — March 30, 2019","authors":"S. Langer","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2072573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The plenary session on the afternoon of the conference was an intergenerational, gender-diverse panel with ages that spanned 60 years. These included our two youth members Esme and Bryce, as well as Julien Loreno, Kim Watson, Pauline Park, PhD, and Jameson Green, PhD. Our intention was to explore how one feels and understands one’s gender internally and within different social contexts. It was also a discussion of how context and life span effect our conceptions of gender. We had a full house for the plenary, almost 300 people. There was a real spirit of interest and respect for the panelists, who were generous enough to share their experience and knowledge. The young people on the panel have their identifiers disguised to protect their privacy, and everyone gave consent to be on the panel and then again for it to be published. One participant did not want to be included in the published version, which we honored. Other than that, the following transcript is complete.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44518015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Psychoanalysts Dream of Polymorphous Sleep?: Clinical Desiring With Transgender Subjects","authors":"Tobias Wiggins","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2072578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072578","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article borrows from the lessons of dystopic science fiction to analyze fantasies that surround gender variance and perversion in the psychoanalytic clinic. Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is used to substrate Lacan’s formations of perversion and their relationship to the paradoxical nature of desire. Lacan’s idiosyncratic handling of perversion formulates an essential truth about the problematic nature of human desiring, a problem that must be creatively mitigated. This article postulates that quotidian difficulties of desire manifest symptomatically in psychoanalytic and psychiatric work with transgender patients through clinical expressions of transphobia. These claims are illustrated with a close reading of a 1948 clinical case study with a transgender analysand. The case pays special attention to the patient’s pencil drawing, produced while in treatment, which visually represents their gender.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43811306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Is a Complex Number and the Case for Trans Phantoms","authors":"S. Langer","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2072577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2072577","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Gender is not only a spectrum; it is a complex number. Each individual has their own unique multidimensional number of gender. Gender as a complex number has developed from the gender algorithm. This conceptualization of gender is seated in theorizing gender from a Bayesian brain foundation, specifically the Free Energy Principle. The phenomenon of phantoms in transgender, transsexual, and nonbinary (TGNB) people has only recently been a subject of inquiry. This article builds on ideas developed through clinical practice and harvested from multidisciplinary theory and research. It applies my theories of interoceptive gender and the gender algorithm to formulations of gender. It will demonstrate how these relate to the theory of trans phantoms, which has important clinical implications and applications for TGNB subjectivity and embodiment.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42929994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Enigma of Memory: Trauma, the Cycle of Unassimilated Experiences, and the Work of Transference","authors":"L. Caputo","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2037311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2037311","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A 20-year treatment of a child of Holocaust survivors is examined considering Laplanche’s concepts of implantation and intromission, Laub’s concept of the empty circle, attachment theory, and reflective parenting, as well as the live third of therapy as witness to dark and unbearable traumas. Laplanche viewed intromissions as a violent form of implantation of the parent’s unconscious that prevents the individual child from translating and repressing in a way that would be expected and normal. In the process of intromission, the ability to metabolize messages is blocked. From Laplanche’s work the article asks: What if the “brute fact” has influenced the unconscious sexual with the dark destruction, annihilation, and the loss of the societal third? What happens when the “implantations” from those earlier significations are accompanied by intromissions, violent messages that may block the process of translation and retranslation? What would the movement and temporality of translation–detranslation look like? If the ability to signify has been lost through this devastating trauma, what is there for the child to translate?","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47202410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}