Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Approach Oren Gozlan London:  Routledge, 2015,  104 pp.

This is a remarkable book—among many other attributes, it reads like psychoanalytic poetry, which is also excellent postmodern writing. In this book review We will use numerous quotes, which will, we hope, demonstrate some points we make later about the content and the style and their effects on the reader.

This is one of only a few books devoted exclusively to the contemporary topic of transsexuality and may be the first of only two to consider it from a truly psychoanalytic perspective, the second being Patricia Gherovici's Transgender Psychoanalysis . The value of the work has been recognized in winning the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize for 2015. Dr. Gozlan is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst in private practice and professor and director of clinical training at the Adler Graduate School in Toronto. He is a diplomate in psychoanalysis with the American Board of Professional Psychology, a candidate in the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, and the chair of the Gender and Sexuality Committee of the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education. He has given courses and lectures, and he has written many papers in the field of transsexuality, and transgender and sexual difference from a psychoanalytic point of view.

Of course Dr. Gozlan does not finally resolve the conundrum of defining transsexuality from a medical, psychiatric, and conventional psychoanalytic