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Beyond Sexuality (Hardcover)
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Beyond Sexuality (Hardcover)
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"Beyond Sexuality" points contemporary sexual politics in a
radically new direction. Combining a psychoanalytic emphasis on the
unconscious with a deep respect for the historical variability of
sexual identities, this original work of queer theory makes the
case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Tim
Dean develops a reading of Jacques Lacan that--rather than
straightening out this notoriously difficult French
psychoanalyst--brings out the queer tensions and productive
incoherencies in his account of desire.
Dean shows how the Lacanian unconscious "deheterosexualizes"
desire, and along the way he reveals how psychoanalytic thinkers as
well as queer theorists have failed to exploit the full potential
of this conception of desire. The book elaborates this by
investigating social fantasies about homosexuality and AIDS,
including gay men's own fantasies about sex and promiscuity, in an
attempt to illuminate the challenges facing safe-sex education.
Taking on many shibboleths in contemporary psychoanalysis and queer
theory--and taking no prisoners--"Beyond Sexuality" offers an
antidote to hagiographical strains in recent work on
psychoanalysis, Foucault, and sexuality.
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