Gila Ashtor, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychoanalysis (in Psychiatry)
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Overview

As a psychoanalyst and critical theorist, Dr. Ashtor is at the forefront of current efforts to bring psychoanalysis into dialogue with adjacent disciplines, especially, queer and critical theory, affect studies, and cultural criticism. She is part of the Faculty at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training & Research, where she teaches courses on Freud, Laplanche, sexuality, and Oedipus. Dr. Ashtor is the author of three books, including Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Theoretical Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2022) and Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory & Erotophobia (Fordham UP, 2021). She approaches psychoanalysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on queer and critical theory to push the field into new and radical territory.

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychoanalysis (in Psychiatry)

Gender

  • Female

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • BA, Brandeis University
  • MA, University of Chicago
  • PhD, Tufts University
  • MFA, Columbia University
  • Certificate in Psychoanalysis, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)

Editorial Boards

  • 2024: Psychoanalytic Dialogues
  • 2024: The Psychoanalytic Review
  • 2018: Studies in Gender and Sexuality

Honors & Awards

  • 2024: Howard Klar Teacher of the Year Award (Columbia)
  • 2022: Alan Bray Award (GLQ Caucus)

Research

Selected Publications

  1. Ashtor, G. (2022). Exigent psychoanalysis: The interventions of Jean Laplanche. Routledge.
  2. Ashtor, G. (2021). Homo psyche: On queer theory and erotophobia. Fordham University Press.
  3. Ashtor, G. (2024). Autotheory, critical and clinical. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 34(3), 356–366.
  4. Ashtor, G. (2023). The wise baby and the original hermeneut. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 33(1), 4–15.