Description: Circumcision on the Couch : The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery, Paperback by Osserman, Jordan, ISBN 1501386387, ISBN-13 9781501386381, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An Independent Book of the Month Penises, and the things people do with them, have been subjects of controversy for a long time. This book examines how one thing that some people do to penises-remove the foreskin-has become a site upon which vital questions of gender, race, religion, sexuality, and psychic life are negotiated. While most contemporary work on the subject is concerned with whether circumcision is right or wrong, safe or harmful, Circumcision on the Couch takes as its starting point that the significance of male circumcision exceeds anatomical and juridical considerations. Deploying a feminist Lacanian framework, while drawing from a wide range of archival sources and critical thought, Jordan Osserman asks: How can psychoanalysis help us shed light on the ideologies, discourses, and fantasies surrounding circumcision and the impassioned stances for and against it? And how might the history of circumcision, in turn, allow us to re-assess and clarify how we understand the split (or “snipped”) subject of psychoanalysis?
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Book Title: Circumcision on the Couch : The Cultural, Psychological, and Gend
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Circumcision on the Couch : The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Comparative Literature, Men's Studies, Semiotics & Theory
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Jordan Osserman
Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
