The Re-turning of the Screw: The Question of Intent and the Risk of Ideality—A Response to Saketopoulou’s Essay “To Suffer Pleasure”

Oren Gozlan, Psy.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the chair of the Gender and Sexuality Committee of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. Dr. Gozlan has published numerous psychoanalytic articles on gender and sexuality. His recently published book ”Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Approach” (Routledge, 2015) has won the American Academy & Board of Psychoanalysis’ annual book prize for books published in 2015. He is also the winner of the 2016 Symonds Prize from the Studies in Gender and Sexuality journal for his paper “The Transsexual Turn: Uncanniness at Wellesley College.” He is currently working on an edited collection titled In Transition: Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies (Routledge). His article “Stalled in the Stall: Reflections on a Strained Debate” will be published in an upcoming issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly.
CONTACT Oren Gozlan, Psy.D., ABPP 507 Davenport Road, Toronto, ON M4V 1B8, Canada.