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This article discusses reproductive history and recent developments in reproductive rights and freedoms in Ireland.

This paper introduces the topic and unique format of the section that follows, on psychoanalytic work with transgender children. We first review the apparent impasse that characterizes our field regarding clinical work with gender diverse kids, as well as the reasons we pursued a live dialog to push thinking forward. Then, we outline the structure of the entire section, in which four contributors offer short essays, followed by a transcribed and edited version of the dialog we facilitated, which uses these essays as a starting point. We conclude with reflections on some of the themes that arise in the dialog, and implications for all of us who work in the arena of gender and young people.

In March 2021, Hannah Wallerstein and Jordan Osserman facilitated a live dialogue over Zoom on the subject of transgender young people, with four psychoanalytic clinicians and thinkers. The conversation draws on short essays submitted in this section of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child as a springboard for discussion. It has been transcribed and edited for length and clarity, and is reproduced here. Questions explored include the differences surrounding gender identity in childhood versus adulthood, the use of medical interventions for children experiencing gender dysphoria, the tension between psychoanalytic neutrality and affirmation, and the ethical stakes of working in this field.

This article explores psychoanalytic work via a trio of themes – outsidership, topology, and time – in the context of psychoanalytic practice and organization in Ireland. Focusing on the ce...

The French film Raw (2016), written and directed by Julia Ducournau, has received critical acclaim as a contemporary female coming-of-age horror film with feminist and critically reflective leanings. The film is an unsettling account of a young woman whose subjective emergence into cannibalism occurs in a sadistic world of “Dionysian excess” at university. This paper assesses the themes of spectatorship, consumption, womanhood, sublimation, jouissance, and sexual non-rapport elicited by the film. “Non-rapport” is Lacan’s term for the real, non-representable gap at the heart of sexual relationships and is what causes discourses which delimit social bonds and modes of enjoyment (jouissance). Using Lacanian discourse theory, and specifically Lacan’s fifth discourse on capitalism, I assess the film’s gloomy meditation on the dehumanizing, anti-social, and dissatisfying nature of hypermodernity with its imperatives to enjoy a seemingly endless supply of object-commodities, and explore what the film articulates about contemporary modes of dealing with jouissance and the implications for the woman subject.

I assess the responses to Clinical Encounters in Sexuality in terms of their impact as “encounter” and how they approach otherness, with otherness being what is not reducible to the same or...