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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
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
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 of
Beyond 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 of The Ruling Passion and The Burdens of Intimacy, and editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race.
Table of Contents
Acknoweldgments
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: An Introduction
Tim Dean and Christopher Lane
Part One: Theorizing Sexuality
1 Foucault, Psychoanalysis, and Pleasure
2 The West and the Truth of Sex
3 The Death of Lacan
4 Closing Up the Corpses: Diseases of Sexuality and te Emergence of
the Psychiatric Style of Reasoning
5 Freud and Homosexuality
6 Lacan and the Hommosexuelle: "A Love Letter"
7 Homosexuality and the Problem of Otherness
Part Two: Gay Sexuality
8 Freud on Group Psychology: Shattering the Dream of a Common
Culture
9 Loving Civilization's Disconentes: Reich and Jouissance
10 Heterosexuality Terminable or Interminable? Kleinian Fantasies of
Reparation and Mourning
11 The Eroticism of Desolation
Part Three: Lesbian Sexuality
12 "The Community of Dolphins" v. "The Safe Sea of Women":
Lesbian Sexuality and Psychosis
13 Unrequited Love: Lesbian Transference and Revenge in
Psychoanalysis
14 Homosexuality and Psychosis in the Clinic: Symptom or
Structure?
15 Lust for Innocence
Part Four:Clinical Perspectives
16 Can Psychanalysis Understand Homophobia? Resistance in the
Clinic
17 Speaking of the Surface: The Texts of Kaposi's Sarcoma
Part Five: Queer Relations
18 Genital Chastity
19 Sexual Disgust
20 Sexuality at Risk: Psychoanalysis Metapragmatically
21 The Fetish of Fluidity
22 Love, A Queer Feeling
Contributors
Index