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

Ram 3n E. Soto-Crespo

Suzanne Yang

Tim Dean is an associate professor of English and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author ofBeyond Sexuality and Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious.

Christopher Lane is an associate professor of English and director of psychoanalytic studies at Emory University. He is the author ofThe Ruling Passion and The Burdens of Intimacy, and editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race.