Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226139364)

A groundbreaking analysis of the troubled relationship between homosexuality and psychoanalysis, including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault

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

Author: Tim Dean
ISBN-10: 0226139360
ISBN-13: 9780226139364
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2001
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.38w x 1.23d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 763