Hannah Wallerstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3940906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Wallerstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallerstein |
| SIGNATURE | WALLERSTEIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austen Riggs Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Being and Knowing
This paper addresses trends in how the concept of experience is currently operating in our field. Taking Thomas Ogden’s ontological framework (2019) as a prominent example, I argue that a subtle idealization and reification of the experiential aspects of our work may shut down space for thought. Through close comparison of Ogden’s framework with those articulated by Winnicott and Bion, I will contend that the inextricability of being and knowing …
Searching for Bedrocks
This paper argues that a conceptual conflation between biology and ontology has had a pervasive influence on psychoanalytic thinking about gender, particularly transgender phenomena. This has made it difficult to think about gender's relationship to the body outside of essentializing fantasies. The origins of the modern term gender and Freud's biological emphasis are addressed, followed by a more extensive engagement with contemporary psychoanaly…
Putting the “Trans” Back in “Truth”
This article concerns the concept of “truth” in relation to transgender studies. Historically, transgender claims to gendered truth have been pathologized as either refusing reality or assuming it locatable. In order to listen to such claims with greater rigor, the author proposes a rethinking of the concept of truth in relation to subjective life. This article attempts as much, by charting out a psychoanalytic definition of truth not as correspo…
Real Gender
This article concerns gender and feeling real. Beginning with Judith Butler’s deconstruction of gender as an ontological category, it argues that the subjective experience of gender as real has been underaccounted for. By reviewing Butler’s work on gender melancholy and then elaborating psychoanalytic theories of identification and reality, this article links feeling real to the dual capacities to both separate from and connect with the object. T…
Memorial note for Judith Wallerstein (1921–2012)
Putting the “Trans” Back in “Truth”
This article concerns the concept of “truth” in relation to transgender studies. Historically, transgender claims to gendered truth have been pathologized as either refusing reality or assuming it locatable. In order to listen to such claims with greater rigor, the author proposes a rethinking of the concept of truth in relation to subjective life. This article attempts as much, by charting out a psychoanalytic definition of truth not as correspo…
Real Gender
This article concerns gender and feeling real. Beginning with Judith Butler’s deconstruction of gender as an ontological category, it argues that the subjective experience of gender as real has been underaccounted for. By reviewing Butler’s work on gender melancholy and then elaborating psychoanalytic theories of identification and reality, this article links feeling real to the dual capacities to both separate from and connect with the object. T…
Memorial note for Judith Wallerstein (1921–2012)
Putting the “Trans” Back in “Truth”
This article concerns the concept of “truth” in relation to transgender studies. Historically, transgender claims to gendered truth have been pathologized as either refusing reality or assuming it locatable. In order to listen to such claims with greater rigor, the author proposes a rethinking of the concept of truth in relation to subjective life. This article attempts as much, by charting out a psychoanalytic definition of truth not as correspo…
Real Gender
This article concerns gender and feeling real. Beginning with Judith Butler’s deconstruction of gender as an ontological category, it argues that the subjective experience of gender as real has been underaccounted for. By reviewing Butler’s work on gender melancholy and then elaborating psychoanalytic theories of identification and reality, this article links feeling real to the dual capacities to both separate from and connect with the object. T…
Searching for Bedrocks
This paper argues that a conceptual conflation between biology and ontology has had a pervasive influence on psychoanalytic thinking about gender, particularly transgender phenomena. This has made it difficult to think about gender's relationship to the body outside of essentializing fantasies. The origins of the modern term gender and Freud's biological emphasis are addressed, followed by a more extensive engagement with contemporary psychoanaly…
On Being and Knowing
This paper addresses trends in how the concept of experience is currently operating in our field. Taking Thomas Ogden’s ontological framework (2019) as a prominent example, I argue that a subtle idealization and reification of the experiential aspects of our work may shut down space for thought. Through close comparison of Ogden’s framework with those articulated by Winnicott and Bion, I will contend that the inextricability of being and knowing …
Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Transgender (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (2 works)