The ruler is not mistress of his own house: Psychoanalytical fragments with respect to the thematic: Trans* Identity

Authors

  • Lisa Schmuckli
  • Patrick Gross

Abstract

Summary:This submission is based on a seminar given by both authors at the Psychoanalytical Seminar Lucerne PSL early 2016. The seminar concentrated on the one hand on a thoroughly critical presentation of reading matter of fundamental texts relating to trans-sexuality and their discussion. In particular, it was about socio-cultural, normative “construction” of gender identity, about radical subjective crossing of such societal conceptions in psycho-sexual development and the unconscious mechanism of fusion. On the other hand, the participants, as Cis-therapists in their psychotherapeutic work with trans-patients, focused in the case studies on transference and counter transference phenomena. Thereby transition and the accompanying breach were discussed, fear was spoken about, it could emerge, and similarly the inseparable pain and the communicable loneliness were worth mentioning. In addition, voyeurism is enumerated as a central transference phenomenon.

Key words: psychological gender – fusion – transition – social death and breach – cis-therapists‘ defences

Author Biographies

Lisa Schmuckli

Lisa Schmuckli ist promovierte Philosophin und Psychoanalytikerin in Luzern. Sie arbeitet als Psychotherapeutin u.a. auch mit Trans*Menschen und beschäftigt sich seit langem mit Gender-Themen. Sie ist Mitglied des Psychoanalytischen Seminars Luzern PSL.

Patrick Gross

Patrick Gross ist Psychoanalytiker und Psychotherapeut in Basel, Mitbegründer und Koordinator der Fachgruppe-Trans*, einer multidisziplinären Arbeitsgruppe für Trans*Begleiter_innen in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz. Dozent am Ausbildungszentrum für Psychoanalytische Psychotherapie (AZPP) in Basel.

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Published

2016-12-29

How to Cite

Schmuckli, L., & Gross, P. (2016). The ruler is not mistress of his own house: Psychoanalytical fragments with respect to the thematic: Trans* Identity. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 6(2), 122–129. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/255

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2016): Sexual variety - to the contact with various sexual identities in the psychotherapy

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Special Issue

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