The Masculine Vaginal

Working With Queer Men’s Embodiment at the Transgender Edge

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8332018
AutoresGriffin Hansbury (autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume65
Fascículo6
Páginas1009-1031
Data de publicação2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0003065117742409
PMID29327629
OpenAlexW2784144201
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas37
Referências citadas19

Turning away from the conspicuous phenomena of transgender experience, with an eye toward locating and illuminating the transgender edge in cisgender, this paper explores the relationship between men and the Vaginal, both material and fantasized. Positing the Vaginal as a counterpart to the Phallic allows a delinkage of vaginal psychic and embodied states from the strictly female so that, like the Phallic, they can be accessed by people of all genders and sexes. This concept goes beyond the conceptual to the fleshy, embodied experience of many transgender men, who live in whole, partial, and/or temporary “female” bodies. It can also be applied to the physio-psychic reality of many cisgender men. Included is a discussion of a case in which a gay cisgender male patient experiences and fantasizes his anus as a vagina

Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Phallic stage · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Transgender · Transsexual · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology