Introduction to the Après Coup of "Deconstructing Difference: Gender, Splitting, and Transitional Space".

With the republication of Muriel Dimen's classic essay, "Deconstructing difference: Gender, splitting, and transitional space" (Dimen, 1991), Psychoanalytic Dialogues launches a new feature, Après Coups. By putting a paper from the early years of the journal in conversation with contemporary readers and writers, we hope to dial into the ways psychoanalysts forge relationality in spaces of complexity and contradiction over time. In this dialogue, we see queerness speaking in and to the psychoanalytic frame. The Après Coups includes commentaries from Virginia Goldner, Ph.D., Ann D'Ercole, Ph.D. & Jack Drescher, M.D., Ph.D., Stephen Hartman, Ph.D., June Lee Kwon, Ph.D., and Julie Leavitt, M.D. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]