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Gives comprehensive overview of Laplanche's work in contemporary
context * Shows how non-partisan approach to key psychoanalytic
topics offers effective way of practicing * Covers classic topics
such as the unconscious as well as hot topics such as gender,
sexuality and identity, and class and race
Gives comprehensive overview of Laplanche's work in contemporary
context * Shows how non-partisan approach to key psychoanalytic
topics offers effective way of practicing * Covers classic topics
such as the unconscious as well as hot topics such as gender,
sexuality and identity, and class and race
2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic?
This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of
its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual
restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life that
is psychologically conservative and narrow. Even after several
decades of combative, dazzling, irreverent queer critical thought,
the field remains far from grasping that sexuality's radical
potential lies in its being understood as "exogenous,
intersubjective and intrusive" (Laplanche). In particular, and
despite the pervasiveness and popularity of recent calls to
deconstruct the ideological foundations of contemporary queer
thought, no study has as yet considered or in any way investigated
the singular role of psychology in shaping the field's conceptual
impasses and politico-ethical limitations. Through close readings
of key thinkers in queer theoretical thought-Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Jane
Gallop-Homo Psyche introduces metapsychology as a new dimension of
analysis vis-a-vis the theories of French psychoanalyst Jean
Laplanche, who insisted on "new foundations for psychoanalysis"
that radically departed from existing Freudian and Lacanian models
of the mind. Staging this intervention, Ashtor deepens current
debates about the future of queer studies by demonstrating how the
field's systematic neglect of metapsychology as a necessary and
independent realm of ideology ultimately enforces the complicity of
queer studies with psychological conventions that are fundamentally
erotophobic and therefore inimical to queer theory's radical and
ethical project.
2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic?
This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of
its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual
restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life that
is psychologically conservative and narrow. Even after several
decades of combative, dazzling, irreverent queer critical thought,
the field remains far from grasping that sexuality's radical
potential lies in its being understood as "exogenous,
intersubjective and intrusive" (Laplanche). In particular, and
despite the pervasiveness and popularity of recent calls to
deconstruct the ideological foundations of contemporary queer
thought, no study has as yet considered or in any way investigated
the singular role of psychology in shaping the field's conceptual
impasses and politico-ethical limitations. Through close readings
of key thinkers in queer theoretical thought-Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Jane
Gallop-Homo Psyche introduces metapsychology as a new dimension of
analysis vis-a-vis the theories of French psychoanalyst Jean
Laplanche, who insisted on "new foundations for psychoanalysis"
that radically departed from existing Freudian and Lacanian models
of the mind. Staging this intervention, Ashtor deepens current
debates about the future of queer studies by demonstrating how the
field's systematic neglect of metapsychology as a necessary and
independent realm of ideology ultimately enforces the complicity of
queer studies with psychological conventions that are fundamentally
erotophobic and therefore inimical to queer theory's radical and
ethical project.
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