On Transsexuality Online at Après-Coup

WORKSHOP On Transsexuality: The Body between Subject and Science

Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge Natália Pereira Travassos Saturday, June 13, 2020 10:30 am – 1:30 pm

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How might psychoanalysis approach the increasing demands for transsexualization? Among crucial issues rarely discussed: the role of homophobia, and scientific belief in the sexual relation; the role of hysteria and its questioning of sexual difference; the nature of children’s identification processes; the role of social networks in spreading modern hysterical epidemics.

Suggested readings: Jorge, Marco Antonio Coutinho and Travassos, Natália Pereira: “L’épidémie transsexuelle: l´hystérie à l’ère de la science et de la mondialisation?” Insistance 13 (2018). Maleval, Jean-Claude: Étonnantes mystifications (2012). Showalter, Elaine: Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (1997).

Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, the director of Corpo Freudiano in Rio de Janeiro and faculty member at Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. He is also a professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, a member of the Société Internationale d’Histoire de la Psychiatrie et de la Psychanalyse, and the author of many books on the foundations of psychoanalysis.

Natália Pereira Travassos is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and member of Corpo Freudiano in Rio de Janeiro. She volunteers at Grupo Arco Iris de cidadania LGBTI+ and is the  co-author of Transexualidade: o corpo entre o sujeito e a ciência (Ed. Zahar, 2018).

 General fee: $30

For students with ID: $20

Attendance is free for all members of Après-Coup as well as for the faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts but registration is required to receive the Zoom link.

NOTE: This seminar will be conducted online. Registration ends at 6 pm (Eastern Daylight Time) on Friday, June 12, 2020. Information about signing in to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to you immediately after you register. If you don’t receive an email, first check your spam folder. If you still don’t see it, email apres.coup@yahoo.com.

We recommend you sign into Zoom 15 minutes before the start of the workshop.