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>The Light Militia of the Lower Sky<: The Deeper Nature of Dreaming and Phantasying

  • This article analyzes and critiques the construct of gender as a psychoanalytic and cultural category. Without succumbing to a nonpsychoanalytic notion of androgyny, the argument developed here challenges the assumption that an internally consistent gender identity is possible or even desirable. Beginning with the idea that, from an analytic perspective, the construct of >identity< is problematic and implausible, because it denotes and privileges a unified psychic world, the author develops a deconstructionist critique of our dominant gender-identity paradigm. It is argued that gender coherence, consistency, conformity, and identity are culturally mandated normative ideals that psychoanalysis has absorbed uncritically. These ideals, moreover, are said to create a universal pathogenic situation, insofar as the attempt to conform to their dictates requires the activation of a false self system. An alternative, >decentered< gender paradigm is then proposed, which conceives of gender as a >necessary fiction< that is used for magical ends in the psyche, the family, and the culture. From this perspective, gender identity is seen as a problem as well as a solution, a defensive inhibition as well as an accomplishment. It is suggested that as a goal for analytic treatment, the ability to tolerate the ambiguity and instability of gender categories is more appropriate than the goal of >achieving< a single, pure, sex-appropriate view of oneself.

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Verfasserangaben:Virginia Goldner
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 01 (1991), pp. 249-272.
Dokumentart:Artikel / Beiträge
Sprache:Englisch
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:1991
Datum der Freischaltung:20.11.2017
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
ID-Nr.:Goldner_V_1991
Bibliothek von Erich Fromm und Erich Fromm-Archiv:Articles / Artikel
Lizenz (Deutsch):
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