Circumcision on the Couch - The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery (Hardcover)

An Independent Book of the Month Penises, and the things people do with them, have been subjects of controversy for a long time. This book examines how one thing that some people do to penises-remove the foreskin-has become a site upon which vital questions of gender, race, religion, sexuality, and psychic life are negotiated. While most contemporary work on the subject is concerned with whether circumcision is right or wrong, safe or harmful, Circumcision on the Couch takes as its starting point that the significance of male circumcision exceeds anatomical and juridical considerations. Deploying a feminist Lacanian framework, while drawing from a wide range of archival sources and critical thought, Jordan Osserman asks: How can psychoanalysis help us shed light on the ideologies, discourses, and fantasies surrounding circumcision and the impassioned stances for and against it? And how might the history of circumcision, in turn, allow us to re-assess and clarify how we understand the split (or "snipped") subject of psychoanalysis?

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Psychoanalytic Horizons
Release date:	2022
Authors:	Jordan Osserman (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-6816-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Promotions
LSN:	1-5013-6816-8
Barcode:	9781501368165

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