Confusing cases: Forrester, Stoller, Agnes, Woman
This paper brings together different strands of my research interests in contemporary formations of gender and sexuality, the history of feminist thought, and the aesthetic practices of clinical writing. I focus on the question of ‘woman’, variously constructed and contested since the time of Freud’s writing, exploring how psychoanalytically informed feminism can contribute to contemporary cultural debates on what many have termed the transgender moment. Specifically, I pursue the hypothesis that a formal alliance pertains between the methodological question of the case study and the cultural question of gender as it has found expression from the 1960s on.
Date: 12 November 2018, 20:15 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue: Lecture Room, St John's College Research Centre, 45 St Giles'; on the west side of St Giles', north of Eagle and Child; ring entryphone from 20.05
Speaker: Julie Walsh (Essex University and private practice)
Organisers: Louise Braddock (Department of Philosophy), Paul Tod (St John's College)
Organiser contact email address: paul.tod@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
Booking required?: Not required
Cost: free of charge
Audience: University members and mental health professionals; contact me if in doubt.
Editor: Paul Tod