The Wretched of the Earth

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment

Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism

Moses and Monotheism

(2011). On the Irreconcilable in Psychic Life: the Role of Culture in the Drive to Become Both Sexes. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 461-474.

On the irreconcilable in psychic life: the role of culture in the drive to become both sexes.

In this paper, I bring relational theory, particularly the work of Irwin Hoffman, into conversation with the work of several sociologists who have explored subjective experience in late modernity. The work of these sociologists suggests that even what we consider to be our existential condition is inextricable from socio-historical circumstance. The work also suggests why relational theory and practice might, at this historical juncture, feel so compelling and so true to so many of us. An important focus of the sociologists’ work is the role played by expertise in the development of late modern subjectivity. Hoffman's thoughts on analytic authority are brought into relation with complementary and contrasting sociological views on experts and expertise.

Dialectical Constructivism in Historical Context: Expertise and the Subject of Late Modernity

After a brief description of neoliberalism, this introduction contends that the articles in the special section on the psychosocial effects of neoliberalism contribute novel ways of thinking about (1) how neoliberalism is lived among different populations; (2) what kinds of fantasies and psychic damage neoliberal policies promote; and (3) what conscious and unconscious forms of collusion and resistance accompany its emergence.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fpcs.2014.16.pdf

Editor’s introduction to special section on the psychosocial effects of neoliberalism

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Editor's Introduction to Special Issue on British Psycho(-)social Studies

In this article we reflect on our time as editors of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. The article reviews some of the journal’s major contributions to psychoanalytic understanding of social and political problems; considers whether or not we are entering a post-neoliberal world; and discusses some of the challenges faced by PCS given the marginal status of psychoanalysis in the wider culture, the journal’s emphasis on interdisciplinarity, and its commitment to providing a space for multiple psychoanalytic voices. The article’s later sections consider some of the areas that remain underdeveloped in the journal’s coverage. In particular, the penultimate section explores the challenging task of specifying whether or not social entities, as opposed to individuals, can be said to have properties that are unconscious in the psychoanalytic sense.

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Lynne Layton

Papers

On the irreconcilable in psychic life: the role of culture in the drive to become both sexes.

Dialectical Constructivism in Historical Context: Expertise and the Subject of Late Modernity

Editor’s introduction to special section on the psychosocial effects of neoliberalism

Editor's Introduction to Special Issue on British Psycho(-)social Studies

Gratitude and leave-taking: Editorial reflections, 2003-2017