The two sleeps of Orlando: Transsexuality as caesura or cut

Dana Amir

doi:10.4324/9781351058995

The two sleeps of Orlando: Transsexuality as caesura or cut

Dana Amir

Department of Counseling and Human Development

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Abstract

Gender dichotomy is probably the most primary dichotomy internalized in human thinking. It acts as a prototype for all the later dichotomies, in a sense inaugurating dichotomous thinking in general-first within the imaginary of the parent who holds the soon to be born infant in his or her mind-and afterwards within the mind of the infant itself. This chapter focuses on the conditions that enable the establishing of a dialectic and unsaturated gender space-one that enables both a concrete and fantasized creative mobility between the two gender poles-versus the conditions that generate a polar, saturated, gender dichotomous stagnation and stasis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies
Subtitle of host publication	In Transition
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	36-47
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351058988
ISBN (Print)	9781138481305
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351058995
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Oren Gozlan; individual chapters, the contributors.

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General Social Sciences

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