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Can It Come Undone?: Treating Gender Troubles in Psychoanalytic Discourses

The Gendered Unconscious: Can Gender Discourses Subvert Psychoanalysis? By Louise Gyler, New York, Routledge, 2010. 196 pp. $26.95 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-415-40170-8.

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Flax, J. Can It Come Undone?: Treating Gender Troubles in Psychoanalytic Discourses. Sex Roles 66, 558–561 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-011-0086-2

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