Homo Psyche : On Queer Theory and Erotophobia / Gila Ashtor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashtor, Gila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotophobia.

Gender studies.

Homosexuality--Psychological aspects.

Homosexuality.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Can queer theory be <em>erotophobic. This book proceedsfrom the perplexing observation that for all of its politicalagita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queertheory conforms to a model of erotic life that is psychologicallyconservative and narrow. Even after several decades of combative,dazzling, irreverent queer critical thought, the field remains farfrom grasping that sexuality's radical potential lies in its beingunderstood as "exogenous, intersubjective and intrusive"(Laplanche). In particular, and despite the pervasiveness andpopularity of recent calls to deconstruct the ideologicalfoundations of contemporary queer thought, no study has as yetconsidered or in any way investigated the singular role ofpsychology in shaping the field's conceptual impasses andpolitico-ethical limitations. Through close readings of keythinkers in queer theoretical thought-Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, LeoBersani, Lee Edelman, Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and JaneGallop-<em>Homo Psyche</em> introduces metapsychology as a newdimension of analysis vis-à-vis the theories of Frenchpsychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who insisted on "new foundations forpsychoanalysis" that radically departed from existing Freudian andLacanian models of the mind. Staging this intervention, Ashtordeepens current debates about the future of queer studies bydemonstrating how the field's systematic neglect of metapsychologyas a necessary and independent realm of ideology ultimatelyenforces the complicity of queer studies with psychologicalconventions that are fundamentally erotophobic and thereforeinimical to queer theory's radical and ethical project.

Contents:

Cover

HOMO PSYCHE

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CONTENTS

Introduction: Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia

1 What "Theory" Knew: Sedgwick, Queerness, Hermeneutics

2 The Genealogy of Sex: Bersani, Laplanche, and Self-Shattering Sexuality

3 Boundaries Are for Sissies: Violation in Jane Gallop and Henry James

4 Adults Only: Lee Edelman's No Future and the Limits of Queer Critique

5 Psychology as Ideology-Lite: Butler, and the Trouble with Gender Theory

6 Two Girls2: Sedgwick + Berlant, Relational and Queer

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780823294183

OCLC:

1247157979