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Leticia Glocer Fiorini, an Argentinian teaching and training analyst, has written extensively on femininity, sexual and gender difference, and unconventional parenthood. An incisive, profound, and original thinker, she brings to her work a thorough and sophisticated understanding of psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy. As a public intellectual who frequently appears in the mass media, she brings psychoanalytic concepts to the general public.
Her latest book, Sexual Difference in Debate: Bodies, Desires, and Fictions, builds on her 2007 book on this issue, Deconstructing the Feminine: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Theories of Complexity. The new book focuses on two major projects: (1) deconstructing the concept of otherness linked to the feminine, and (2) rethinking the concept of sexual difference.
Glocer Fiorini starts with Freud's thoughts and then discusses and develops the ideas of others: Freud's contemporaries, including Klein and Horney; post-Freudian and contemporary thinkers such as Lacan, Laplanche, Green, Winnicott, McDougall, Chasseguet-Smirgel; and more recent thinkers such as Kristeva, Tort, Abelin-Sas Rose, and Bleichmar. She also discusses interdisciplinary contributions by Deleuze, Morin, and Butler, among others. With well-chosen quotes, she elucidates the theories of these figures, crediting their contributions while noting their blind spots and contradictions. Clear and precise, she invites the reader to reflect with her every step of the way.
Glocer Fiorini finds that cultural changes—new family configurations, new biotechnologies, social violence, multiculturalism—necessarily bring “changes in subjective presentations and in norms regulating social exchange” (p. xix). Because the analytic situation is immersed in this reality, both the patient's material and the analyst's perception will be affected.