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Writing

Books

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Feeling Disorders (Little, Brown and Co., under contract

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Sexuality, Excess & Enigma: The Collected Papers of Ruth Stein (Routledge, under contract

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Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2021)

  • Nominated for Gradiva Award

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Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham UP, 2021)​​​

  • Winner of the Alan Bray Book Price, 2022

  • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2022

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Aural History (memoir) (Punctum, 2020)

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"Silver Lining: Poems" (National Library of Poetry, 1998)

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Scholarly Writing

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Clinical Articles:

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"Queer Relationality: On Erotophobia & Psychosexuality” (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, forthcoming) â€‹

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"The Crowded Mirror: Heinz Kohut and the Myth of Adult-Infant Love” (The Psychoanalytic Review, forthcoming) 

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"Analysis Cures: On rereading Freud” (The Psychoanalytic Review, 2024) 

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"Autotheory, Critical and Clinical” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2024) 

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"The Wise Baby and the Original Hermeneut" (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2023)

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Book Review: "Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticized Contempt: Technical Challenges posed by cases of Narcissism and Perversion” by Michael Shoshani and Batya Shoshani (Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2023) 

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"Sex Instead of Shattering: A Critical Exploration of Bersani and Laplanche" (Studies in Gender & Sexuality, 2019)

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"The Ideology of Transference: Laplanche and Affect Theory" (Studies in Gender & Sexuality, 2018)

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Critical Articles:

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"Drink Responsibly: On Morality and Perversion" (differences, 2025)

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"Tender Pessimism" (differences, 2022)

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"The Misdiagnosis of Critique" (Criticism, 2019)

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"Two Girls²: Berlant + Sedgwick, Relational and Queer" (Postmodern Culture, 2016)

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"The Gift(book) that keeps on Giving: Poe, "The Purloined Letter," Rereading, Reprinting and Detective Fiction" (Poe Studies, 2012)

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"Erotic Mourning: Post-traumatic Sexual Desire in Dave Eggers' "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (Comparative Literature and Culture, 2010)

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Book Chapters:​

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"Erotophobia: Or, Isn't Everyone A Pervert?" in The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and BeyondEds. Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi, Myriam Sauer (Routledge, 2025)

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“Adults Only: Lee Edelman’s No Future and the Limits of Queer Critique” in The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass, Eds. Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

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Popular Writing

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"So You Think You've Been Gaslit", by Leslie Jamison (The New Yorker, April 2024)

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"Toxic Relationships in the Affective Age" (Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2020)

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© 2020 by Gila Ashtor

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