The last half-century has seen enormous changes in society s
attitude toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the United
States were routinely arrested; today, homosexual activity between
consenting adults is legal in every state, with same-sex marriage
legal in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In the 1950s, ambitious
women were often seen as psychopathological and were told by
psychoanalysts that they had penis envy that needed treatment;
today, a woman has campaigned for President of the United
States.
Mark Blechner has lived and worked through these startling
changes in society, and Sex Changes collects papers he has written
over the last 45 years on sex, gender, and sexuality. Interspersed
with these papers are reflections on the changes that have occurred
during that time period, both within the scope of society at large
as well as in his personal experiences inside and outside of the
therapeutic setting. He shows how changes in society, changes in
his life, and changes in his writing on sexuality - as well as
changes within psychoanalysis itself - have affected one
another.
One hundred years ago, psychoanalysis was at the cutting edge of
new ideas about sex and gender, but in the latter half of the 20th
Century, psychoanalysts were often seen as reactionary upholders of
society s prejudices. Sex Changes seeks to restore the place of
psychoanalysis as the "once and future queer science," and aims for
a radical shift in psychoanalytic thinking about sexuality, gender,
normalcy, prejudice, and the relationship of therapeutic aims and
values.
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