Series: Decentralized Learning Experiences

A learning experience can be almost anything, and any licensed clinician can propose one. It can be about a paper, a book or a movie. It can tackle an idea, such as field theory or dream analysis or focus on the work of a theorist. The format can be didactic or it can be a leaderless seminar or a one-hour conversation. It can be a one-off event or a series of weekly, biweekly, or monthly meetings. Currently, this program is in its pilot stage, so certain limits may apply.

Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s Learning Experiences are free.

This event will not be recorded.

In case of questions please contact: [email protected]

The Transgender Psychoanalysts Are Coming!: Disrupting Transphobia within Institutional Psychoanalysis

Please note that to allow for a rich and vulnerable exploration this seminar will be limited to 15 participants. To allow more people to attend the same seminar will be held on 2 dates:

March 15th at 4:00 – 5:30 PM PT
April 12th at 9:00 – 10:30 PT AM PT
(1.5 hours)
The reading will be provided and participants are expected to read the chapter before attending so we may use our time to engage with the material.
Required Reading

Wiggins, T. (2024). Gird your loins: The transgender psychoanalysts are coming!. E. Punzi, V. Sinclair, & M. Sauer (Eds.) The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Contemporary Times. Routledge.

Description

To “gird your loins” is a common idiom with a comical edge, a metonymic and thus anticipatory expression. It is both a gendered and sexed declaration, meant to warn of upcoming difficulty or strenuous undertaking. In this seminar, participants will read and discuss Dr. Wiggins’ recently published chapter in The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Contemporary Times, considering how the institution of psychoanalysis has been girding its loins against transgender subjects since its inception, despite some of its most fundamentally queer and gender nonconforming premises. Through a pronounced attention to genitality, binarism, and a dense history of homo- and trans-phobic cases, clinical psychoanalysis has almost exclusively cast transgender subjectivities into the realm of either perversion or psychosis. This chapter contributes to a growing body of scholarship that challenges psychoanalysis’ fundamentally destructive quotidian clinical transphobia. Additionally, it uniquely interrogates the under-considered issue of transgender people’s systemic exclusion from the status of “psychoanalyst.”

This seminar will provide an opportunity for clinicians andacademics to openly examine the state of the profession and its enduring psychoanalytic cis-tuation. Together, we will foreground the importance of trans-led interventions and collaboratively imagine tangible actions to take within your own psychoanalytic community.

Presenter

Dr. Tobias Wiggins

Dr. Tobias Wiggins (he/him) is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Athabasca University (AU) currently living in Treaty 7, Mohkinstsis (MOH-kin-stiss), colonially known as Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. His research specializations include transgender mental health and sexuality, psychoanalysis, research-creation, queer visual culture, and cisgender psychology. Broadly, Wiggins’ work aims to address the continued pathologization of gender diversity and advocate for trans-competent care. He is the director of the TransLab, an interdisciplinary research hub that supports the production and dissemination of qualitative, theoretical, and arts-based research in Transgender Studies. At AU, he coordinates the University Certificate in Gender & Social Justice Counselling, which applies intersectional feminist and social justice theory to a wide variety of helping professions. Dr. Wiggins’ recent scholarly outputs include contributions to significant anthologies like The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2024), Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care (2023), Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities (2020); journals including Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2022), The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (2021), and Transgender Studies Quarterly (2020); as well as well as community-based publication projects and digital storytelling.

Tobias Headshot for Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Series: Decentralized Learning Experiences

A learning experience can be almost anything, and any licensed clinician can propose one. It can be about a paper, a book or a movie. It can tackle an idea, such as field theory or dream analysis or focus on the work of a theorist. The format can be didactic or it can be a leaderless seminar or a one-hour conversation. It can be a one-off event or a series of weekly, biweekly, or monthly meetings. Currently, this program is in its pilot stage, so certain limits may apply.

Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s Learning Experiences are free.

This event will not be recorded.

In case of questions please contact: [email protected]

The Transgender Psychoanalysts Are Coming!: Disrupting Transphobia within Institutional Psychoanalysis

Please note that to allow for a rich and vulnerable exploration this seminar will be limited to 15 participants. To allow more people to attend the same seminar will be held on 2 dates:

March 15th at 4:00 – 5:30 PM PT
April 12th at 9:00 – 10:30 PT AM PT
(1.5 hours)
The reading will be provided and participants are expected to read the chapter before attending so we may use our time to engage with the material.
Required Reading

Wiggins, T. (2024). Gird your loins: The transgender psychoanalysts are coming!. E. Punzi, V. Sinclair, & M. Sauer (Eds.) The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Contemporary Times. Routledge.

Description

To “gird your loins” is a common idiom with a comical edge, a metonymic and thus anticipatory expression. It is both a gendered and sexed declaration, meant to warn of upcoming difficulty or strenuous undertaking. In this seminar, participants will read and discuss Dr. Wiggins’ recently published chapter in The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Contemporary Times, considering how the institution of psychoanalysis has been girding its loins against transgender subjects since its inception, despite some of its most fundamentally queer and gender nonconforming premises. Through a pronounced attention to genitality, binarism, and a dense history of homo- and trans-phobic cases, clinical psychoanalysis has almost exclusively cast transgender subjectivities into the realm of either perversion or psychosis. This chapter contributes to a growing body of scholarship that challenges psychoanalysis’ fundamentally destructive quotidian clinical transphobia. Additionally, it uniquely interrogates the under-considered issue of transgender people’s systemic exclusion from the status of “psychoanalyst.”

This seminar will provide an opportunity for clinicians andacademics to openly examine the state of the profession and its enduring psychoanalytic cis-tuation. Together, we will foreground the importance of trans-led interventions and collaboratively imagine tangible actions to take within your own psychoanalytic community.

Presenter

Dr. Tobias Wiggins

Tobias Headshot for Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Dr. Tobias Wiggins (he/him) is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Athabasca University (AU) currently living in Treaty 7, Mohkinstsis (MOH-kin-stiss), colonially known as Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. His research specializations include transgender mental health and sexuality, psychoanalysis, research-creation, queer visual culture, and cisgender psychology. Broadly, Wiggins’ work aims to address the continued pathologization of gender diversity and advocate for trans-competent care. He is the director of the TransLab, an interdisciplinary research hub that supports the production and dissemination of qualitative, theoretical, and arts-based research in Transgender Studies. At AU, he coordinates the University Certificate in Gender & Social Justice Counselling, which applies intersectional feminist and social justice theory to a wide variety of helping professions. Dr. Wiggins’ recent scholarly outputs include contributions to significant anthologies like The Queerness of Psychoanalysis (2024), Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care (2023), Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities (2020); journals including Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2022), The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (2021), and Transgender Studies Quarterly (2020); as well as well as community-based publication projects and digital storytelling.

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