Psychoanalyse im Widerspruch

The debate about trans* is highly topical and polarized. In the debate, attention should be paid to gender-sensitive and gender-equitable language, especially when dealing with people who define themselves as trans or non-binary. Language expresses...

Bodies are always already in trans positions. From a psychoanalytical perspective, genders are dependent on bodies. Bodies that today are considered surgically and hormonally modifiable can be both productive and disruptive for a positioning in a...

As psychoanalysts, we work with concepts that have great heuristic value and at the same time continue to emphasize the naturalness of gender difference and binarity. In terms of queer theory, binarity is not simply described through these...

This article provides an overview of the changes that have taken place in recent years in the context of trans* from a clinical perspective and in recognition of the complex and sometimes contradictory developments within the medical care system in...

The article points to a connection between the theoretical development and the politics of science in psychoanalysis since the beginning of its institutionalisation. Freud’s striving to establish his Ideas as a recognized (natural) science in a...

The article recapitulates the recurrent debate on pluralism and/or unity in psychoanalysis, which is criticized as fruitless because it could not yield any significant results and weakens the psychoanalytic community from within. Instead of...

Psychoanalysis has evolved primarily by not stopping at Freud’s drive psychology. The development of the so-called four psychologies are an example. With the help of extended structural diagnostic possibilities and with empirical research it is...