RU423: SHEILA CAVANAGH ON BRACHA ETTINGER & JACQUES LACAN: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SEXUALITY & THE M/OTHER

RU423: SHEILA CAVANAGH ON BRACHA ETTINGER & JACQUES LACAN: PSYCHOANALYSIS, SEXUALITY & THE M/OTHER

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Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Sheila Cavanagh back to the podcast! She’s here to talk about her new book Bracha L. Ettinger and Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and the M/other (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-23293-9

Rendering Unconscious episode 423.

On this episode, Sheila discusses her work on Bracha Ettinger, including her new book, Bracha L. Ettinger and Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and the M/other, and how she ensures her work is Open Access.

Sheila L. Cavanagh is Professor of Sociology, York University, Canada, and candidate at the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis. She co-edits Australian Feminist Studies and is former Chair of the Sexuality Studies Association in Canada. Cavanagh’s scholarship in gender, feminism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis has been published internationally. https://sheila.info.yorku.ca/selected-publications/

References for Sheila Cavanagh’s scholarship (most of which is Open Access) on Tiresias, transgender, and Transpsychoanalytics:

Cavanagh, Sheila L. “Tiresias: Bracha L. Ettinger and the Transgression with-in-to the Feminine.” Femininity and Psychoanalysis. Routledge, 2019. 204-216.

Cavanagh, Sheila L. “Transgender embodiment: A Lacanian approach.” The Psychoanalytic Review 105.3 (2018): 303-327.

Cavanagh, Sheila L. “Transpsychoanalytics.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 4.3-4 (2017): 326-357.

Cavanagh, Sheila Lynn. Bracha L. Ettinger and Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and the M/other. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

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Check out previous episode(s) with this guest:

RU159: SHELDON GEORGE, DEREK HOOK, SHEILA CAVANAGH & MICHELLE STEPHENS ON LACAN & RACE: https://youtu.be/hvg2QroGUGU?si=LIfUMuM6MNYYaWmv

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