The Masculine Vaginal

Working With Queer Men’s Embodiment at the Transgender Edge

Bibliographic Data

ID8332018
AuthorsGriffin Hansbury (corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume65
Issue6
Pages1009-1031
Publication date2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0003065117742409
PMID29327629
OpenAlexW2784144201
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited19

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