SEXUALITY AND GENDER NOW

Summary — English:

This edited volume examines sexuality and gender from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, particularly challenging heteronormative assumptions within psychoanalytic theory and practice. It explores how clinicians’ conscious and unconscious assumptions about sexuality and gender can influence the analytic relationship and clinical thinking. Several chapters address desire, same-sex sexuality, bisexuality, gender diversity, and the changing meanings of masculine and feminine identities. The book also considers erotic transference and countertransference, emphasizing how unexamined assumptions can restrict exploration of patients’ experiences. Overall, the authors argue for a more flexible psychoanalytic framework that can engage with diverse sexualities and gender experiences without imposing normative expectations.