THE HYMAN FINGERT LECTURE: Pleasures of Deviance, Erasures of Vulnerability: The
Sexual Drive and the Fantasy of the Deviant Male in Psychoanalysis and Politics
Presenter: Daniel Jose Gaztambide, PsyD
Date(s): Feb. 20, 2027
Time: 11:00 am-12:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Credits: 1.5
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Price: $50 (with credits), $25 (without credits)
Hybrid
Description
“Bad hombres,” “military age males,” “men in women’s bathrooms”–these are some of the “boogeymen” evoked to trump up transphobia and racism, feelings of fear and sexual threat that empower politicians to “get the bad guys” even as they enact policies that embolden the wealthy, make us unsafe, and target us for death. In the process, the vulnerability of racialized cis and trans men and racialized transwomen is erased, imagined as only perpetrators–never victims–unconscious schemas that find their way into psychoanalysis. This presentation traces the fantasy of the deviant male through Freud and Ferenczi’s clinical cases where the “deviant male” emerged in the transference, then working through the cases of three forerunners of the decolonial psychoanalytic tradition–Girindrasekhar Bose, Bingham Dai, and Frantz Fanon–each one revealing how the “deviant male” is a site of threat and desire. Using empirical research, this presentation will unpack the political relevance of these ideas today, and draw out their implications for clinical practice.
Course Objectives
- Analyze and reimagine assumptions around the sexual vulnerability of racialized men and transwomen, with implications for clinical practice;
- Describe how schemas of the “deviant male” permeate the origins of psychoanalysis and popular culture;
- Explain how racialized prototypes of the “deviant male” are projected onto the group as a whole, facilitating their targeting, persecution, and elimination.
References
- Bandt-Law, B., Cheek, N. N., Glazier, J. J., Olson, K. R., & Kaiser, C. R. (2025). The underestimation of transgender women’s vulnerability to workplace sexual harassment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Advance Online Publication.
- Preddie, J. P., & Biernat, M. (2021). More than the sum of its parts: Intersections of sexual orientation and race as they influence perceptions of group similarity and stereotype content. Sex Roles, 84(9), 554-573.
- Wolff, J. D., Tummala-Narra, P., Aradhya, P., Hegarty, A., Shen, N., & Tanega, C. (2025). Experiences of sexual violence among racial minority college men. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 95(6), 613-627.
About the Presenter
Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD, is assistant professor of psychology at Queens College, where he is the director of the Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology, and a faculty member in the Department of Critical Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of the books A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology, and the recent Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch, which received a 2024 Gradiva Award for Best Book. He is in analytic training at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and is the recipient of multiple fellowships and awards including a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, a Miranda Family Fellowship, and the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education’s 2025 Outstanding Psychoanalytic Educator Award. Lastly, he is the recipient of a presidential citation for his service as part of the American Psychological Association’s Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism, Discrimination, and Hate. Alongside his scholarship developing the theoretical and technical implications of a decolonial psychoanalytic perspective, he engages in qualitative research examining the impact of colonial mentality among Puerto Rican populations, and the role of racialized gender among LGBTQ populations.
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