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In the introduction, Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber rehearse the history of the figure of the child in queer theory and psychoanalysis and propose that a meeting of the two fields might be most generative when applied to the queer time and sexualities of childhood.
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Freud, “Three Essays,” SE, 148.
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Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience,” in Bruce Fink, ed. and trans., Écrit: the First Complete Edition in English (New York, 2006), 75–81.
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Donald W. Winnicott, (1947) “Further thoughts on babies as persons,” in The Child, the Family, and the Outside World (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1964), 88.
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For example, in Sedgwick’s, “How to Bring Your Kids up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys,” in Michele Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon and Sedgwick, eds., Tendencies (Durham, NC, 1993), 154–164.
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Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC, 2004), 29.
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See, for example, Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure (Durham, 2011), José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York, 2009), and Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child: Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Durham, 2009).
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Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Durham, NC, 2009).
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Hannah Dyer, The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood: Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development (New Brunswick, NJ, 2020).
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Tey Meadow, Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century (Oakland, CA, 2018); see also Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Oakland, CA 2018).
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See, for example, Kenneth B. Kidd, Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature (Minneapolis, MN, 2011); and the path-breaking volume that inspired this collection, Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley, eds., Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (Minneapolis, MN, 2004).
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Sigmund Freud, The Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), in James Strachey, ed. and trans., The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume VII (1901–1905): A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality and Other Works (London, 1955), 125–243.
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In recent years, more psychoanalysts have been in explicit dialogue with queer theory. See, for example, Brian Kloppenberg, “The Psychoanalytic Mode of Thought and its Application to the Non-Normative Analysis of Gender and Sexuality,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 64: 1 (2016): 133–159. Avgi Saketopoulou, “Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 62: 5 (2014): 773–806; Katie Gentile, “The Business of Being Made: Exploring the Production of Temporalities in Assisted Reproductive Technologies,” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 14: 4 (2013): 255–276; Griffin Hansbury, “King Kong & Goldilocks: Imagining Transmasculinities Through the Trans–Trans Dyad,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21: 2 (2011): 210–220.
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See Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, ed., The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII [1975–1976], trans. Adrian Price (Malden, MA, 2016).
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Paul Verhaeghe and Frédéric Declercq, “Lacan’s analytical goal: ‘Le Sinthome’ or the feminine way,” in Luke Thurston, ed., Re-inventing the symptom: Essays on the final Lacan (New York, 2002), 59–83.
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Edelman, No Future, 31, 165.
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Alenka Zupančič, What is Sex? (Cambridge, MA, 2017), 10.
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Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1984), 275.
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Jean Laplanche, “The Drive and its Source-Object: its Fate in the Transference,” in John Fletcher, ed. and trans., Essays on Otherness (New York, 1999), 127–131.
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See Zupančič, What is Sex?, 11.
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Fishzon, A., Lieber, E. (2022). Introduction: The Queer Child and the Childish Queer. In: Fishzon, A., Lieber, E. (eds) The Queerness of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59195-1_1
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