Oren Gozlan
Oren Gozlan, Psy.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the chair of the Gender and Sexuality Committee of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. Dr. Gozlan has published numerous articles in psychoanalytic journals. His recently published book "Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Approach" (Routledge Press) has won the American Academy & Board of Psychoanalysis’ annual book prize for books published in 2015. He is also the winner of the 2016 Symonds Prize from the Studies of Gender and Sexuality Journal for his paper “The Transsexual turn: Uncanniness at Wellesley College. He is currently working on an edited collection for Routledge Press.
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adolescents who come into the therapeutic space with clear and precise
demands to be supported through their gender transition. Winnicott’s
concept of ruthlessness, extended from the infant-mother matrix to the
emotional situation of the clinic, allows a consideration of the conditions
under which the analyst can think about adolescent demands. These
conditions involve the desire of both patient and analyst for certitude and
the analyst’s urgency to respond, as well as the adolescent’s contradictory desires to both destroy and create gender. The work of Sally Swartz, who brought to Winnicott’s conception a notion of ruthlessness
in protest, helps us consider the qualities of ruthlessness in constituting
gender. A snippet of work with a nonbinary patient shows how questions
of gender cannot be understood apart from the intersubjective transferential field. Tying ruthlessness to the enigma of desire illuminates the emotional situation of the clinical encounter between the nonbinary or
trans patient and the analyst, a situation that is also libidinal. An analytic
move from the question of gender identity to the realm of an emotional
situation allows the analyst to meet adolescent ruthlessness. This meeting is an ethical attempt to understand the other, but also reveals one’s resistance to giving up something in order to understand
adolescents who come into the therapeutic space with clear and precise
demands to be supported through their gender transition. Winnicott’s
concept of ruthlessness, extended from the infant-mother matrix to the
emotional situation of the clinic, allows a consideration of the conditions
under which the analyst can think about adolescent demands. These
conditions involve the desire of both patient and analyst for certitude and
the analyst’s urgency to respond, as well as the adolescent’s contradictory desires to both destroy and create gender. The work of Sally Swartz, who brought to Winnicott’s conception a notion of ruthlessness
in protest, helps us consider the qualities of ruthlessness in constituting
gender. A snippet of work with a nonbinary patient shows how questions
of gender cannot be understood apart from the intersubjective transferential field. Tying ruthlessness to the enigma of desire illuminates the emotional situation of the clinical encounter between the nonbinary or
trans patient and the analyst, a situation that is also libidinal. An analytic
move from the question of gender identity to the realm of an emotional
situation allows the analyst to meet adolescent ruthlessness. This meeting is an ethical attempt to understand the other, but also reveals one’s resistance to giving up something in order to understand