Monika Gsell

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Monika Gsell (* 1961 ) is a Swiss cultural scientist , gender researcher , psychoanalyst , lecturer and author .

biography

Gsell studied philosophy and German at the University of Basel . At the Psychoanalytical Seminar Zurich (PSZ) she received training as a psychoanalyst. Gsell completed her doctorate in 1998 in Basel with a psychoanalytical-cultural-historical work on The Meaning of the Baubo . At the Zurich Institute for Sexology and Sex Therapy (ZISS) she received further training in sex therapy .

Gsell has been a research assistant in the Gender Studies department at the University of Zurich since 2001 . Two years later she also opened her own practice for psychoanalysis . In 2011 she took over the scientific project management of the “ Judith Le Soldat Foundation”. The edition of Le Soldat's works is arranged in five volumes. Gsell is responsible for the critical and annotated edition of the estate. The first volume was published in 2015.

Research interests

From a psychoanalytical perspective, Gsell devotes her research and publications in particular to the topics of femininity and masculinity , the intercultural consideration of surgical interventions in the human genital area and thus overall at the same time the relationship between body, psyche and culture, but also the representation of unconscious conflicts in literature, film and music Art. In her efforts to get to the bottom of her research questions, she uses psychoanalysis both as a theory of unconscious conflict and as a technique for treating it.

In her scientific work, Gsell pursues “always a double concern”. She wanted to convey "an awareness of the psychological meaning of masculinity and femininity and the associated (instinctual) conflicts and solutions" and at the same time to make the theoretical concepts of Freud and Le Soldat, which are not always easy to understand , understandable. seem indispensable ”.

Scripts

Gsell wrote the scripts for the documentaries Well Done (1994) and Ghetto (1997) with Thomas Imbach . Both films received international awards.

Publications

Author
  • The importance of the Baubo . To represent the female genitalia. (Dissertation University of Basel, 1998) Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2001. ISBN 3-86109-147-X .
  • Body packers & body stuffer. A medical challenge. (Dissertation) University of Bern 2010.
  • Cutting open, incising, splitting, perforating. Male Practices of Overcoming Difference from a Psychoanalytic Perspective . In: Martina Läubli, Sabrina Sahli (Ed.): Think masculinity. Current perspectives in masculinity studies in cultural studies . Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1720-7 , pp. 125-149 .
Editor of the Judith Le Soldat works edition

Critical Edition, Comments and Introductions:

  • Reason to be homosexual. Lectures on a new psychoanalytic theory of homosexuality. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-7728-2681-8 .
  • Land of No Return. In search of a new psychoanalytic theory of homosexuality. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-7728-2682-5 .
  • Robbery and Treason. An analysis of Freud's Irma dream. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-7728-2683-2 .
Important articles (selection)
  • With Markus Zürcher: Light into the darkness of bisexuality. Bisexuality, anatomical gender difference and the psychoanalytic meaning of male and female. PSYCHE 65, 2011, pp. 669-729.
  • With Ralf Binswanger: Psychosexual development and gender identity under intersex conditions. 2012.
  • What is different on the “other bank”? On Judith Le Soldat's “Reason for Homosexuality”. ( Online ) In: Journal für Psychoanalyse (2016) 57: 27-47.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Gsell, Dr. In: University of Zurich, Asia-Orient Institute. April 29, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Monika Gsell: Desexualization of unusable instinctual impulses? The circumcision ritual of the West African Kono from a psychoanalytic perspective . In: Werkblatt . tape 78 , no. 1 , 2017, p. 81–105 ( werkblatt.at [PDF; 115 kB ; accessed on August 16, 2020] p. 2).
  3. ↑ Monika Gsell: Desexualization of unusable instinctual impulses? The circumcision ritual of the West African Kono from a psychoanalytic perspective . In: Werkblatt . tape 78 , no. 1 , 2017, p. 81–105 ( werkblatt.at [PDF; 115 kB ; accessed on August 16, 2020] p. 3).
personal data
SURNAME Gsell, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychoanalyst, cultural and gender researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1961