{"title":"Waking Up in Someone Else’s Bed: On Ethos (Bir Başkadır), Netflix, Turkey, 2020","authors":"George Taxidis","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996743","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Turkish Netflix series Ethos takes a sensitive look at the quagmire that is alterity, both within and outside of psychotherapy. It offers an opportunity to challenge the rigid narratives we use to cope with the unknown and with otherness, as well as problematizing binaries such as religious/secular, primitive/civilized, client/therapist.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49475234","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}
Kopano Ratele, S. Suffla, M. Seedat, Mireille Fanon Mendès France, Nelson Maldonado-Torres
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue: In Dialogue with Fanonian and Southern Thought","authors":"Kopano Ratele, S. Suffla, M. Seedat, Mireille Fanon Mendès France, Nelson Maldonado-Torres","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of the global pandemic, which has deepened existing global struggles against coloniality and racist, heteropatriarchal, and capitalist social formations, this special issue focuses on Fanon, Southern Theory, and Psychoanalysis: Dialogues on Race, Gender, and Sexuality. In dialogue with the work of Frantz Fanon—a key figure in thinking on colonialism and decolonization—and other critical thinkers from the Global South, the contributors raise important questions about the place and relevance of psychoanalysis in contemporary thought and practice. The special issue invites readers to consider the creative and liberatory possibilities for psychoanalysis within and without its epistemic and clinical norms and traditions. This article introduces the special issue and summarizes the nine contributions included here.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46494707","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 Empire of Denial","authors":"S. Mendelsohn","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996738","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT By reconsidering the supposedly failed encounter between the French psychoanalyst Octave Mannoni and the race critic and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, this article readdresses the Freudian concept of denial and the way it can be used as a powerful analyzer of the persistence of racism. Supporting both the libidinal fixation through the making up of a fetish, and the ego splitting between knowledge and belief, denial reveals itself to be one of the consistent means by which imperialism maintains itself after the loss of an Empire. Preventing political and subjective decolonization by sustaining jouissance (enjoyment), the paradoxical way conceived by Lacan to theorize how the subject tries to encounter and escape his/her own ontological fragility, denial is here considered itself as an Empire, insofar as it allows the subject of the unconscious to remain alienated to colonial ideals and to benefit from that, even if in ambiguous ways.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45384571","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":"Between Fanon and Lacan: Rupturing Spaces for the Return of the Oppressed","authors":"Ursula Lau","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996737","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Race is something about which we would rather not speak. Yet it speaks through our everyday enactments structured through our modes of looking. Black Lives Matter and Me Too have shown that something continues to speak in the place where it has been repressed/oppressed. How do we engage with these ruptures in a critical-empathic manner? Can Lacanian psychoanalysis, aligned with a Fanonian sociogeny, offer a dual lens to make sense of intersubjective racialized enactments, to inform possibilities for decolonial engagement? In this article, I explore the unconscious ruptures between myself (a South African Asian-Chinese woman) coming to recognize my Whiteness performed on a go-along and residents of “the township” historically designated “Black.” Blackness and Whiteness are situationally performed, arising in moments of attunement/misrecognition. Reconstituting the oppressive gaze involves a “working through” (within and without) to look toward ourselves for recognition so that we can witness the self/other without rupturing apart.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59876033","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":"Biko’s Black Conscious Thought Is Useful for Extirpating the Fear of Whites Deposited in Black Masculinity","authors":"Kopano Ratele","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996740","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing a line from Black men dehumanized by racism to radical political love, I open up about my experience of racism-induced fear of White people. The fear of Whites is tied to having grown up in a racist society. This fear of Whites is read as a fear of Black death due to racism, a fear of bodily death as much as social nonexistence. The article is used to work out how we might extirpate the fear of White people deposited by racism inside of Black people, with a focus on Black men. It draws from the work of Steve Biko, a leader in the Black Consciousness Movement that flourished in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. Regarding Biko as an eminent psychopolitical activist, who followed in the tradition of politically conscious psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, it is contended that Black Conscious thought enables individuals to stamp out racism-induced fear.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47348082","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}
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Mireille Fanon Mendès France, S. Suffla, M. Seedat, Kopano Ratele
{"title":"Fanon’s Decolonial Transcendence of Psychoanalysis","authors":"Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Mireille Fanon Mendès France, S. Suffla, M. Seedat, Kopano Ratele","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996727","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Coloniality continues to invade the psychomaterial lives of the condemned. Invoking psychoanalysis and phenomenology to engage with modern psychopathologies and race, gender, and sexuality, Fanon developed seminal ideas on social suffering in the context of colonial violence on psychic life. In reading Fanon, we discern two challenges: the decolonial transcendence of psychoanalysis as a theoretical framework, and the decolonial transcendence of psychoanalysis as a practice. These challenges are integral to the transcendence of disciplines and healing practices, and the requirement to develop a “multidimensional investigation” of human beings in the face of alterity and sociality in human reality. Fanon’s decolonial turn in psychoanalysis offers the makings of a decolonial and Fanonian oath for healing, of which decolonial love is a central principle. Our instantiation of transcendence of practice orients toward the provisions for a decolonial and Fanonian oath for healing, animated through epistemic agency, politico-affectivity, actional consciousness, and radical relationality.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46861711","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":"AfroLatinx Females: Coloniality, Gender, and Transformation","authors":"L. Comas-Díaz","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996741","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class increases AfroLatinx females’ vulnerability to oppression. This article provides an analysis of AfroLatinx females’ realities from a coloniality of power, knowledge, and gender perspectives. Many AfroLatinx females struggle with postcolonization traumas, as well as with a colonial mentality. Decolonial liberation, womanism and mujerismo, and indigenous healing approaches are presented to facilitate AfroLatinx females’ transformation. Specifically, a decolonial integrative healing approach is introduced, geared to enhance AfroLatinx females’ psychological wellness and buen vivir, the Aymara worldview of living a life of fullness. This approach involves an amalgamation of liberation psychology, womanism/mujerismo, and indigenous healing into psychoanalytic theory and practice. Notwithstanding the harmful effects of postcolonial and current sociopolitical traumas, many AfroLatinx females resist, combat, and transform. Anchored in a new consciousness, numerous AfroLatinx females develop a revolutionary ethno–racial–gender identity, one that sustains their struggle for social justice.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48731638","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":"Black Flesh Matters! The Human Stakes of BLM and Rethinking the Psychoanalytic Subject","authors":"Michelle R. Stephens","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996739","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on the significance of the Black Lives Matter movement in relation to the psychoanalytic movement in the United States. To understand the profound resonance of the phrase “Black lives” requires a retracing of the history of modern Western understandings of the human, as they have been expressed through the psychoanalytic subject’s relationship to the human body and, metonymically, the skin. Frantz Fanon’s prescient observations in his mid- 20th-century work, Black Skin, White Masks, continue to resonate as a theorization of the relationship of Blackness to unacknowledged narratives that shape the psychoanalytic tradition. This article historicizes and theorizes the racialization of the skin, specifically, in relationship to psychoanalytic thinking on the human, and contrasts the latter with a Black feminist genealogy that centers on this most charged question of our contemporary moment: What is the meaning of Black life?","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46034332","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}
N. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Abeer Otman, Rasmieyh R. Abdelnabi
{"title":"Secret Penetrabilities: Embodied Coloniality, Gendered Violence, and the Racialized Policing of Affects","authors":"N. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Abeer Otman, Rasmieyh R. Abdelnabi","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1996735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1996735","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Secrecy as a mode of governance offers a new site to analyze and understand the state’s violence against those living under settler colonial oppression. In this article, we investigate the Israeli state’s policies and use of “secret information” to violate, infiltrate, and penetrate Palestinian women’s lives, bodies, psyches, and minds in Occupied East Jerusalem. By sharing Palestinian women’s narratives, we offer a glimpse into the operation of colonial power via what we define as gendered securitized secrecy. The narratives expose the gendered aspects of the psychopolitical work of secrecy in penetrating, engineering, and/or destabilizing the constructions of national and social bonds, personhood, and sexuality among colonized women. We argue that secrecy, as state-militarized and psychologized gendered violence, increases social and private disciplining of bodies and affects. Secrecy is challenged by an embodied and affective counterpolitics that refuses and defies the power of secrecy.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46825113","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":"Realness With a Twist1: Gender Creativity in the LGBTQ Ballroom","authors":"Catherine Baker-Pitts, Darrel Martin","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2021.1961497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2021.1961497","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on semistructured interviews with 20 transgender people of color who are active in the New York City LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning) ballroom-house culture, this qualitative study explores the subjective need for recognition of transgender realness against the demonstrable threat of exposure, rejection, and gendered violence. Applying a Winnicottian lens, the ballroom is understood as an intermediary space where gender creativity is celebrated and the subjective meaning of realness is unchallenged between the internal psyche and external, transphobic culture. Using D. W. Winnicott’s concept of the “right not to communicate for fear of being infinitely exploited,” this article considers the “joy in hiding and the disaster in not being found” for people of trans experience who are sought out and exposed, yet not truly recognized or protected. In clinical work, a focus on detecting transgender realness shows up as impingements—deflected by the patient’s compliant object-relating—on what Winnicott calls the “personal core,” thwarting genuine communication, psychic growth, and “all the sense of real.” Lessons from the ballroom-house community illuminate the hard-earned quest for recognition against the demand to unmark transgender realness for trans and gender-diverse (TGD) people of color who navigate explicit and micro violations, including the historical violence of erasure.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41620959","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}