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Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism, Paperback / softback Book

Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism Paperback / softback

Edited by Alan (William Alanson White Institute, New York City, USA) Slomowitz, Alison (Stony Brook University, New York State, USA) Feit

Part of the Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series series

Paperback / softback

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Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist, and queer perspectives.

The book explores how seemingly irreconcilable differences might be resolved.

The book is divided into two separate but related sections.

The first highlights the divide between the psychoanalytic, academic, and traditional Orthodox Jewish perspectives on sexual identity and orientation, and the acute psychic and social challenges faced by gay and lesbian members of the Orthodox Jewish world.

The contributors ask us to engage with them in a dialogue that allows for authentic conversation. The second section focuses on gender identity, especially as experienced by the Orthodox transgender members of the community.

It also highlights the divide between theories that see gender as fluid and traditional Judaism that sees gender as strictly binary.

The contributors write about their views and experiences from both sides of the divide.

They ask us to engage in true authentic dialogue about these complex and crucial emotional and religious challenges.

Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as members and leaders of Jewish communities working with LGBTQ issues.

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