Issue #117 Like a Real Veil, Like a Bad Analogy: Dissociative Style and Trans Aesthetics

Like a Real Veil, Like a Bad Analogy: Dissociative Style and Trans Aesthetics

Maxi Wallenhorst

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Vika Kirchenbauer, UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, 2020. Video still. Copyright: Vika Kirchenbauer & VG Bild Kunst

Issue #117
April 2021










Notes
1

Cited in M. Sierra and G. E. Berrios, “Depersonalization: A Conceptual History,” History of Psychiatry 8, no. 30 (June 1997): 213–29.

2

Oren Gozlan, Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Approach (Routledge 2015), 4, emphasis added.

3

Charlie Markbreiter, “‘Just a Bunch of Hot F*ck-Ups’: The Trans Comedy of Dissociation and Wanting to Be Normal,” interview by Jules Gill-Peterson, published in Gill-Peterson’s newsletter Sad Brown Girl, February 9, 2021 .

4

Elizabeth Howell, The Dissociative Mind (Routledge, 2005), 4.

5

In a talk at Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme, France, spring of 2017.

6

“Anticipating current psychological knowledge of memory, Janet … stated that memory ‘is an action: essentially, it is the action of telling a story’ … Not only is the subject often incapable of making the recital that we speak of as a memory, but ‘he remains confronted by a difficult situation in which he has not been able to play a satisfactory part, one to which his adaptation had been imperfect, so that he continues to make efforts at adaptation.’” Howell, Dissociative Mind, 57.

7

Paul F. Dell and John A. O’Neil, Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond (Routledge, 2009), xxi.

8

Kyla Schuller, The Biopolitics of Feeling (Duke University Press, 2017).

9

Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby (Penguin, 2021), 152.

10

Peters, Detransition, Baby, 121, emphasis added.

11

Jamie Hood, “Fucking Like a Housewife,” The New Inquiry, February 17, 2020 .

12

Peters, Detransition, Baby, 152.

13

“No one had so casually seen through her.” Peters, Detransition, Baby, 153.

14

Torrey Peters, “Writing For a Trans Audience,” interview with Carter Sickels, The Rumpus, January 10, 2021 .

15

Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (Continuum, 1997), 143.

16

Juliana Huxtable, Mucus in My Pineal Gland (Capacious & Wonder, 2017).

17

Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick (Belknap Press, 2020), 2.

18

Nora Fulton, “suqu,” in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, ed. Kay Gabriel and Andrea Abi-Karam (Nightboat, 2020), 323–24.

19

Emma Heaney, The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory and the Trans Feminine Allegory (Northwestern University Press, 2017), 6.

20

Jules Gill-Peterson, “Estro Junkie,” Sad Brown Girl, March 3, 2021 .

21

Grace Lavery, “Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique,” Critical Inquiry 46, no. 4 (2020): 722.

22

Kay Gabriel, “Gender as Accumulation Strategy,” Invert Journal, no. 1 .

23

Ngai, Theory of The Gimmick, 194.

24

Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta, The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977; Nightboat Books, 2019), 27.