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. --- from the publisher 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 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 |