Name: Gender Without Identity
Start: 2023-05-03T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-05-03T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 721 Broadway, Richard Schechner Studio, Room 612

Gender Without Identity

NYU’s Performance Studies Department

Join authors Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini as they discuss their new book, Gender Without Identity.

721 Broadway, Richard Schechner Studio, Room 612

Join authors Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini as they discuss their new book, Gender Without Identity (Unconscious in Translation Press, spring 2023). Rooted in the metapsychology of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies, Saketopoulou and Pellegrini offer an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. They jettison “core gender identity” to propose, instead, that gender is something all subjects acquire -- and that trauma sometimes has a share in that acquisition. Gender Without Identity argues for the ethical urgency of recognizing that wounding experiences and traumatic legacies may be spun into gender. Such “spinning” involves self-theorizations that do not proceed from a centered self, but are nevertheless critical to psychic autonomy. Saketopoulou and Pellegrini, who are both practicing psychoanalysts, draw on these ideas to offer theoretical and clinical resources for working with gender complexity and for complexifying (what is seen as) gender normativity.IMPORTANT ATTENDANCE INFORMATION:This event is open to the general public. Reserving a ticket in advance is REQUIRED. Please use the event link above to book a ticket before 4pm of the day of the event.All guests will be required to show a government photo ID and proof of vaccination at the door. More information on NYU's Guest Policies can be found<a href="https://www.nyu.edu/life/safety-health-wellness/coronavirus-information/campus-visitors.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> here</a>.

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