Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics
From Norm to Desire
- 204 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics is a consideration of the relationship between LGBTQIA+ politics, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory.
The book argues, through readings of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and Lee Edelman's No Future, that core queer categories – such as normativity and anti-normativity – sidestep questions that are crucial not only to contemporary sexual politics but also to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical work. Luiz Valle Junior attends to the queer account of the political shortcomings of the contemporary LGBTQIA+ movement, as well as to the inadequacies of the queer reception of Lacanian psychoanalysis and makes a case for the ongoing relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis to thinking through a renewed sexual politics. The book reflects on the potentiality of a Lacanian theory of sexual politics to challenge the dominance of identity in contemporary LGBTQIA+ activism and in the queer theoretical archive. Valle Junior shifts the discussion of sexual politics from the terrain of normativity and identity to the terrain of desire and enjoyment, and questions enduring heteronormative positions that contemporary Lacanians continue to espouse, against Lacan's own position.
Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics will be of great interest to academics and scholars of queer studies, psychoanalysis, and in the LGBTQIA+ movement, and more broadly in the relation of identity analytics to contemporary psychoanalytic and political thought.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Preface
- Introduction: Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics
- 1. To Φ or Not: Gender Trouble and the Phallus (1955–9)
- 2. Queer (Im)Moralism and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959–60)
- 3. Lacanian Sexual Anthropology: Patro-phallocentrism and the Social (1938–67)
- 4. Marx avec Lacan: Concepts for a Libidinal Economy (1968–74)
- Conclusion: For a Queerer Lacanism
- Index