Gozlan Oren
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Psychoanal Rev. 2018 Feb;105(1):1-29. doi: 10.1521/prev.2018.105.1.1.
This paper examines current psychoanalytic engagements with the use of hormone blockers in transsexual children and the underlying premises concerning our understanding of the child's process of coming into his or her gendered self. Rather than taking sides in the debate, I explore how the "hormones question" becomes entangled in a series of misreadings and displacements through which the child's request could potentially be missed. In examining psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the trans child's agency, autonomy, and future and the relation between the natal body and gender, I ask, how is psychoanalytic discourse implicated in the very dilemmas it attempts to elucidate? Specifically, the essay examines critically the psychoanalytic use of continuity, authenticity, and alignment as implicit ideals, interrogates the focus on mourning as therapeutic horizon, and proposes that we conceive of gender as a good-enough placeholder with the potential to carry us from the ideal of continuity to an ethos of contiguity.
本文探讨了当前精神分析领域对变性儿童使用激素阻断剂的相关探讨，以及我们对儿童形成其性别化自我过程的理解背后的前提假设。我并非在这场辩论中偏袒某一方，而是探究“激素问题”是如何陷入一系列误读与替代之中，而通过这些误读与替代，儿童的诉求有可能被忽视。在审视精神分析对变性儿童的能动性、自主性和未来的概念化，以及出生时的身体与性别的关系时，我提出疑问：精神分析话语是如何卷入到它试图阐明的困境之中的？具体而言，本文批判性地审视了精神分析将连续性、真实性和一致性作为隐含理想的运用，审视了将哀悼作为治疗视野的关注点，并提出我们应将性别视为一个足够好的占位符，它有潜力引领我们从连续性的理想走向相邻性的伦理。
