Psychoanalysis and Gender from Buenos Aires to London: book launch

Launch of the Book

Post-patriarchal, Post-heteronormative and Poscolonial Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis for all. (Routledge, 2024)

By Débora Tajer

 Psychoanalyst based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is Professor of Public

Health and Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires.

About the book

It  considers contemporary efforts to create a post-patriarchal, post-

heteronormative, and postcolonial psychoanalytic approach to human suffering.

Débora Tajer examines contemporary psychoanalysis and its future by integrating

three key strands of Argentinean cultural discourse: the popularity of

psychoanalysis, the active feminist movement, and the burgeoning field of feminist

psychoanalysis. Tajer delves into themes of subjectivity, power, gender, and family,

revealing the patriarchal, heteronormative, and colonial underpinnings of classical

psychoanalytical approaches. She also explores the contributions of theoretical-

clinical instruments from a gender and psychoanalytical perspective. Throughout

the book, Tajer highlights changes in femininities and masculinities, new family and

relationship configurations, current forms of labour insertion, evolving ideals, and

new modes of gender identity assumption and sexual expression.

Post-patriarchal, Post-heteronormative, and Postcolonial Psychoanalysis will be of

great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training. It will also appeal to

readers looking to understand Argentinian perspectives on the future of

psychoanalysis

Host or Publisher Débora Tajer