Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226139379 ISBN 13: 9780226139371

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Synopsis

Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan, Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire, they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism, disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love. Including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault, Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis will interest cultural theorists, psychoanalysts, and anyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in our time.

Contributors:
Lauren Berlant
Leo Bersani
Daniel L. Buccino
Arnold I. Davidson
Tim Dean
Jonathan Dollimore
Brad Epps
Michel Foucault
Lynda Hart
Jason B. Jones
Christopher Lane
H. N. Lukes
Catherine Millot
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Ellie Ragland
Paul Robinson
Judith Roof
Joanna Ryan
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
Suzanne Yang

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From the Publisher

"This important collection of essays will dispel forever the illusion that psychoanalysis has nothing to teach us about lesbian and gay sexuality. It gives a powerful demonstration of the apparently limitless capacity of this discourse to say something new about the issues that matter to most of us. And, given that homosexuality plays a part in the organization of even the most normative psyche, there is none which should matter more."--Kaja Silverman, author of Male Subjectivity at the Margins

"A wide-ranging collection of essays on a topic whose time has come at last, Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis contains some surprising new takes on ethics and Foucault, attempts to draw Lacan to the side of queer, and revisits 'classic' texts of gay and lesbian theory, reviving old debates with fresh ambition."--Teresa de Lauretis, author of The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire

About the Author

Tim Dean is an associate professor of English and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author ofBeyond Sexuality and Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious.

Christopher Lane is an associate professor of English and director of psychoanalytic studies at Emory University. He is the author ofThe Ruling Passion and The Burdens of Intimacy, and editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226139379
• ISBN 13: 9780226139371
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Dean Tim, Lane Christopher