“Sex” and “sexuality” are key concepts for both psychoanalysis and queer theory. Queer theorists have long engaged psychoanalysis; it has even been an influential launching point for some strands of queer theory. Increasingly, the influence is going both ways, with more and more psychoanalysts and psychotherapists drawing on the insights of queer theory to enrich clinical work. The ongoing emergence and elaboration of gender queer and sexually queer identities makes such cross-pollination urgent. But it can also feel daunting to approach work in queer theory for the first time on your own. This workshop offers a strong and structured introduction to queer theory, showing how the insights of queer theory connect to clinical work. Importantly, the workshop will also demonstrate that these insights can benefit our work with all our patients and not just with those who identify as sexual or gender “queers.”
The workshop will be structured around an opening presentation by the workshop leader, who will take participants through key concepts. No prior knowledge or familiarity with queer theory is required. Short readings will be circulated to workshop participants in advance.
Gain an understanding of major concepts in queer theory.
Become familiar with recent developments in trans studies and queer of color critique and their relationship to “queer theory.”
Be able to explain the relevance of queer theory in thinking clinically about non-normative as well as normative genders and sexualities.
Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D., is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Their books include: Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997), Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance, co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen (NYU Press, 2003), and “You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People, co-authored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico (Beacon Press, 2013). “You Can Tell Just By Looking” was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Nonfiction. Pellegrini is the founding co-editor of the Sexual Cultures book series at NYU Press, and is currently completing a new book on queer structures of religious feeling. She and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou were the recipients of the inaugural Tiresias Paper Award from the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association for their co-written essay, “A feminine boy: normative investments and reparative fantasy at the intersections of gender, race, and religion.”
Course Description
Meet Your Instructor
Getting to Know You and Your Course Goals
Part 1: Genealogy of Queer Theory; The Meanings of "Queer"; Pressure of Identity
Part 2: Intersectionality and Queer Theory; Relations of Power and Sex/Sexuality/Gender
CE Quiz
Course Survey
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