Abstract

ROSE, Jacqueline. The call of the unconscious: Trans, sexual harassment - returning to the question.Translated byImyra Bardelotti. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2019, vol.53, n.2, pp. 41-65. ISSN 0486-641X.

Drawing on her previous engagement with the topics of trans and sexual harassment, Jacqueline Rose will argue in this lecture that the dialogue with psychoanalysis on both of these vexed, complex issues of our time, is as challenging as it continues to be urgent. What happens when we try to insert the concept of the unconscious into the reality of our political lives? Or rather, when we recognise the place of the unconscious in the public identities we foster, inhabit, and fight. Both trans and harassment confront us with the question of social justice. Is it always the role of psychoanalysis to issue a caution in relation to our dreams of a better world, or might it belong right at the heart of our struggle to attain it?

Keywords : sexual harassment; abuse; trans; sexual difference; hysteria; Booker prize for fiction.

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