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To(o) Queer the Analyst: Lesbiana , Junguiana and Sudamericana . Towards Woven Onto-Epistemologies*
The objective of this study is to involve architecture and its planning abilities, to face the irregularities that have proliferated over the current geological epoch, the Anthropocene, and to grow and evolve together with the rest of the disciplines who tackle its actual problems. By embarking upon the duality that architecture is constantly involved in relations with the physical environment and repetitively reassembled into a social construct, it seeks to portray a grounded reciprocal dialogue with the agencies of these two systems in order to create a sustainable habitable environment for nonhumans and humans. This premise is backed by two essential theories which each describe one constituent of the above-mentioned duality. The Gaia theory, of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, which shares a novel knowledge upon the animate beings and the physical territory of our planet, and the Actor Network Theory (ANT), mostly in accordance with Bruno Latour’s work, which describes the social or natural world as a world assembled of constantly, ever changing, in associations, actors. Furthermore, the following research is applied on two selected urban spaces of the capital city of Kosovo, Prishtina. The first territory is the old Bazaar of the capital, and the second space is the Railway Station of Prishtina and its surrounding territory. Additionally, the existing state of these case studies aims to inform, through the systemic knowledge of the two theories, the architectural decision making, in order to generate a striving, livable atmosphere for all beings.
The notion of the "biological individual" is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological subdisciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade, nucleic acid analysis, especially genomic sequencing and high-throughput RNA techniques, has challenged each of these disciplinary definitions by finding significant interactions of animals and plants with symbiotic microorganisms that disrupt the boundaries that heretofore had characterized the biological individual. Animals cannot be considered individuals by anatomical or physiological criteria because a diversity of symbionts are both present and functional in completing metabolic pathways and serving other physiological functions. Similarly, these new studies have shown that animal development is incomplete without symbionts. Symbionts also constitute a second mode of genetic inheritance, providing selectable genetic variation for natural selection. The immune system also develops, in part, in dialogue with symbionts and thereby functions as a mechanism for integrating microbes into the animal-cell community. Recognizing the "holobiont"--the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts--as a critically important unit of anatomy, development, physiology, immunology, and evolution opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological subdisciplines have heretofore characterized living entities.
The main objective of this qualitative and quantitative research paper is to explore the occurrences and relations of the anima, animus and androgynous in dreams, with particular emphasis on the consideration of the androgynous in the human psyche. The sample consists of 9 series of dreams (141 dreams in total), from 9 dreamers, 7 women (female sex/gender) and 2 men (male sex/gender), aged 25-57, heterosexual, undergoing Jungian psychotherapy, and presenting couple-related themes. Statistical results and qualitative analysis offer new input for the re-vision of the classical anima-animus model, and the addition of in-depth explorations into the androgynous, paving the way for a new model of psychopathology and psychotherapeutic clinical work, in transition.
Dr. Lisa Marchiano, in her article, “Transgender Children: The Making of a Modern Hysteria,” resurrects an archaic and misogynistic label in order to invalidate the experience of transgender young persons. Marchiano’s article represents a long history of anti-transgender activism, including the promotion of an unfounded pseudo-diagnosis that has been rejected by both medical and mental health professionals. Rather than dismissing transgender identities as a media-influenced delusion, Jungian theory provides a unique opportunity to understand the transgender experience through a focus on powerful mythic and archetypal themes.
This article consists in the articulation of the analytical psychology of C.G. Jung and the contemporary references in social theory, with the aim of improving clinical listening of psychologists and other professions working with issues of gender and sexuality. By bringing these two fields of knowledge closer together, I intend to propose theoretical contributions that enable a more effective clinical listening that must consider sociopolitical aspects of individual conflicts, not dismissing the psychological perspective.
Gender assignment, as a key aspect of identity and cultural position, has existed throughout recorded time and across all cultures. An individual's biological sex and particular cultural milieu has a profound effect on their sense of themselves as a gendered being. Sexuality is a more recent marker in identity formation. In the last few decades there has emerged a great deal of interest in the psychology of gender formation, in the interplay of biological sex, culture, brain development, and attachment experiences in the formation of gender identities. Queer theory in its post-modern deconstructionist thinking has suggested that gender is a socially 'constructed' concept having no biological or psychological precursors or realities. Contemporary developmental psychoanalysis is bridging the gap between concepts of gender as purely biological and gender as non-existent. In this paper I explore the emergence of same-sex desire at mid-life, presenting two case histories with extensive dream material. The impact of sexual desire on gender identities is examined through the lenses of culture, dynamic systems theory, neuroscience, and depth psychology. The use of dream analysis as a window into the body/mind movement of gender emergence reflects my sense of gender as a fluidly shifting reality of mind, neither hardwired nor fictional.
An exploration into the world of the queer others of gender and sexuality moves us beyond the binary opposition of male/masculinity and female/femininity in our understanding of gender and expands the meaning of gender and sexuality for all humans. A revision of Jungian gender theory that embraces all genders and sexualities is needed not only to inform our clinical work but also to allow us to bring Jungian thought to contemporary gender theory and to cultural struggles such as gay marriage.
The cognitive and developmental neurosciences are increasingly focused on the importance of body biology and embodied experience to the emergence of mind. In my exploration of gender I ask how gender comes to be experienced in a developing body and how those embodied gender feelings elaborate into a conscious category in the mind, a gender position.
My understanding of emergent mind theory suggests that one's sense of gender, like other aspects of the mind, emerges very early in development from a self-organizing process involving an individual's particular body biology, the brain, and cultural environment. Gendered feeling, from this perspective, would be an emergent aspect of mind and not an archetypal inheritance, and the experiencing body would be key to gender emergence.
A revised Jungian gender theory would transcend some of the limitations of Jung's anima/animus (A/A) gender thinking allowing us to contribute to contemporary gender theory in the spirit of another Jung; the Jung of the symbolic, the mythic, and the subtle body. This is the Jung who invites us to the medial place of the soul, bridging the realm of the physical body and the realm of the spirit.
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