Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis

by Tim Dean (Editor)

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.


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

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Sexuality, Queer, LGBT

472 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

Tim Dean joined the University Buffalo faculty in 2002, after several years teaching at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and University of Washington (Seattle). A former British civil servant, he was educated at University of East Anglia (BA in American Studies), Brandeis University (junior year abroad), and Johns Hopkins University (MA and PhD).
He wrote an undergraduate dissertation on Gary Snyder and a doctoral dissertation on Hart Crane. He also has been a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.

His research and teaching interests include Anglophone modernism, poetry and poetics, queer theory, gender theory, aesthetic theory, and psychoanalytic theory.

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ill

What I think:
any attack on male homosexuality is an attack on the basic nature of humanity/ such an attack soon extends to attacking homosexuality in women/ then extends to attacking women generically

such attacks are always based on the political arrangements of maintaining power of men over women and always end up justifying keeping the status quo.

This is all a lot of complication about something that is not complicated.


from the WorldCat computer:

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
Ramon E. Soto-Crespo
Suzanne Yang





TOC
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

[Richard K. W. Hsu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very Excellent Collection