Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Transamerica
Chapter 2: Depathologizing trans
Chapter 3: Gender in the blender
Chapter 4: Bring sex back
Chapter 5: Strange bedfellows: psychoanalysis and sexology
Chapter 6: Changing sex, changing psychoanalysis
Chapter 7: A natual experiment
Chapter 8: From trance to trans in Lacan’s revisions of hysteria
Chapter 9: Simulation, expression, and truth
Chapter 10: The sweet science of transition
Chapter 11: The singular universality of trans
Chapter 12: Portraits in a two-way mirror
Chapter 13: Plastic sex, the beauty of it
Chapter 14: That obscure object: from beauty to excrement
Chapter 15: Freud’s scatalog
Chapter 16: The art of artifice
Chapter 17: Clinic of the Clinamen
Chapter 18: Making life livable
Chapter 19: Body trouble
Coda: phallus interruptus, or the snakes’ lesson