The P*ssy Missile Has Launched: Free Speech Effects of the Women’s March as Prelude to #MeToo, and With a Coda¹

Jill Gentile, Ph.D., is a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and faculty and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. She is a corresponding editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context, and The Candidate Journal (advisory). She has published many scholarly journal articles on personal agency, desire, and symbolic life, and her public essays have been featured in the Huffington Post, the New School’s Public Seminar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Philosophical Salon. Her book Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire, with Michael Macrone (Karnac, 2016), examines the mutual relevance between psychoanalysis and democracy through the lenses of free speech and the female body. She was awarded the 2017 Gradiva Award for her essay “What Is Special About Speech?” She has also served as a consultant to the Emmy-nominated film The Tale (HBO, 2018). She maintains a clinical practice in New York, where she sees individuals and couples and leads private study groups.
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