COWAP: Beauty and Gender: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Session 2: Fashion from a Gender Psychoanalytic Perspective

Speakers: Patricia Gherovici and Margarita Cereijido

Saturday, June 27, 2026
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Via Zoom
1.5 CME/CE per session · 4.5 CME/CE total · Captions in all languages

This session explores fashion from a gender psychoanalytic perspective, approaching it not as decoration, but as an interface
between the individual’s internal and external worlds. Fashion can help contain, protect, and organize psychic experience. It
can also help individuals inhabit different subjectivities and moods.

From war bonnets to crown jewelry, cocktail dresses to loincloths and bikinis, fashion can be seen as a space where identities
—such as gender and social status—as well as desires, are inscribed and communicated.

Alternating between restrictive styles that reshape and constrain the body and transparent, revealing aesthetics, fashion plays
a role in navigating the tensions between self-expression and compliance. The session explores how fashion participates in the
formation of subjectivity, and how these dynamics reverberate in our clinical work.