Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8334362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana E Moga (0009-0007-9303-5606, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 30651251387044-30651251387044 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00030651251387044 |
| PMID | 41261974 |
| OpenAlex | W4416398312 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 73 |
Autism and queerness frequently overlap but little is written about this intersection psychoanalytically and queerness or gender atypicality are often viewed as underlying symptoms of autism. Autism itself gets reduced to a problem within a person’s brain by the medical model, while the disability model focuses on the social construction of autism. Psychoanalysis is uniquely positioned to theorize the interweaving of the body, mind and the social: the intrapsychic development of the autistic queer child, the way they interact and make meaning of their interaction with caregivers, and the impact of social stigma and harsh disciplining of neurodiversity and queerness alike. This paper illustrates the central role of understanding neurodiversity in fostering our autistic queer patients’ ability to reclaim their developmental narrative, process trauma, and come into an overall sense of vitality and healthy self-esteem in their gendered bodies, without which desire is compromised. For many autistic queer individuals, gender queerness is intrinsically linked to the ways they experience their autistic bodies. Neuroqueering our psychoanalytic lens means coming to terms with the ways that we participate in the disciplining of divergent bodies and minds in response to the primitive anxieties elicited by autistic and trans desire, to the detriment of our patients and theories
Autism · Meaning (existential) · Psychoanalytic theory · Queer · Social constructionism · Stigma (botany) · Through-the-lens metering · Vitality · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Autistic autobiography
Enhanced Perceptual Functioning in Autism
Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism
Premature mortality in autism spectrum disorder
Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice Judgments
Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals
Trump Cards and Klein Bottles
Can We Decolonize Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
Countertransference Madness
Annual Research Review
Rethinking echolalia
Empire of Normality
Extending the Minority Stress Model to Understand Mental Health Problems Experienced by the Autistic Population
Oh no! I see a pit
Sex on the spectrum
Quirky Citizens
Skimming the Milk, Cajoling the Soul—Embodiment and Obscenity in Sexuality
Disgust, Desire, and Fascination—Psychoanalytic, Cultural, Historical, and Neurobiological Perspectives Commentary on Muriel Dimen's Paper
On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as “Clinical Logic”
Where Sex Was, There Shall Gender Be? the Dialectics of Psychoanalytic Gender Theory
The missing
A Genuinely Developmental Theory of Sexual Enjoyment and Its Implications for Psychoanalytic Technique
Rotten Apples and Ambivalence
Strange and Otherwise Unaccountable Actions”
Impairment, socialization and embodiment
Sexuality and Suffering, Or the Eew! Factor
Seeing and inviting participation in autistic interactions
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |