I trained as a clinical psychologist in NY after having moved to the United States from Greece and Cyprus. My practice includes a racially and ethnically diverse range of individuals. I work with a wide array of issues, such as trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties, and have extensive experience with variant genders, in both children and adults, and queer sexualities. “In my office, located in Union Square, I treat children -as young as age 3- adults, couples, and polycules. On her website, she describes her work in the following terms: In this radical alternative to thinking about racialization, consent, and trauma, Avgi dares us to step into a different territory, where we do not guard the self but risk experience.
Those who surrender to the fact that their pain cannot be eliminated, she argues, are sometimes able to do things with trauma. Rather than buy into the notion that trauma can be cured, she reroutes our attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The book concludes by theorizing currents of sadism that, when pursued ethically, can animate unique forms of interpersonal and social care.Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst and professor who works with transgender kids and their families. Putting the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique, performance studies, and philosophy, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the strange in ourselves, not to master trauma but to rub up against it, can open us up to encounters with opacity. Moving between clinical and cultural case studies, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter, to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain.
Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can solicit the future.
Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit consent, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Radical alternatives to consent and traumaĪrguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain.
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