I will watch this at least two more times and still not get everything out of it. I wish this had been 3 hours. Looking forward to getting my hands on this book.
So refreshing to hear someone state in no uncertain terms that psychoanalysis' current fashion of reactionary attitudes towards the existence of transgender people is an incorrect reading. If anyone has sources for a comprehensive argumentation along those lines, I would love to be directed to it. I find it disgusting how it is trendy right now in Lacanian circles to go on polemics against 'identity politics', which equate the rightfully criticised ideologies of identity with the actual existence of human beings, who precisely are causing a problem to reactionaries by failing to exist within the identity categories imposed on them. Then, neoliberalism conditions those people's safety from violence on their willingness to adopt identitarian discourses produced by institutions that will only protect those bodies made legible to them. And instead of doing the obvious thing which is to criticise the institutional structures that produce identity politics, psychoanalytic polemicists direct their criticism towards the courageous political efforts of vulnerable people. As if transgender people owed anyone to become fluent in Lacanese before they deserve not to be murdered on the street. In the end, psychoanalysis belies its own status as just one more of these ideological institutions that expects loyalty to its discourse, when it ought to be so much more than that.
All-around brilliance. Thanks for this intro to Nathan's work. I haven't got his book yet hooked?!
I will watch this at least two more times and still not get everything out of it. I wish this had been 3 hours. Looking forward to getting my hands on this book.
So refreshing to hear someone state in no uncertain terms that psychoanalysis' current fashion of reactionary attitudes towards the existence of transgender people is an incorrect reading. If anyone has sources for a comprehensive argumentation along those lines, I would love to be directed to it.
I find it disgusting how it is trendy right now in Lacanian circles to go on polemics against 'identity politics', which equate the rightfully criticised ideologies of identity with the actual existence of human beings, who precisely are causing a problem to reactionaries by failing to exist within the identity categories imposed on them. Then, neoliberalism conditions those people's safety from violence on their willingness to adopt identitarian discourses produced by institutions that will only protect those bodies made legible to them. And instead of doing the obvious thing which is to criticise the institutional structures that produce identity politics, psychoanalytic polemicists direct their criticism towards the courageous political efforts of vulnerable people. As if transgender people owed anyone to become fluent in Lacanese before they deserve not to be murdered on the street. In the end, psychoanalysis belies its own status as just one more of these ideological institutions that expects loyalty to its discourse, when it ought to be so much more than that.
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