Castration fever

On trans, China, and psychoanalysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3129751
AutoresHoward Chiang (0000-0002-3658-3565, History Department University of California Davis California USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume57
Fascículo3
Páginas243-250
Data de publicação2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jhbs.22095
PMID34224148
OpenAlexW3180042538
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas29

This essay considers the evolution of the author's research over the last 15 years in which the treatment of castration as a historical problem holds promise for bridging disparate scholarly fields and paradigms. In particular, by tracing the shift in the author's intellectual focus from the science of sex change to the history of transcultural psychoanalysis, some insights are offered in regard to the intertwined politics of transness, Chineseness, and the unconscious. Though psychoanalysis may appear as a subject far removed from the eunuchs of ancient China, this essay highlights some of the methodological stakes that have saturated the historical study of both topics. These reflections can serve as a touchstone for thinking beyond disciplinary norms and conventions, especially in Chinese studies and the history of science

China · Discipline · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Unconscious mind · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Psychology