In this Book
- Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Punctum Books
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Clinical Encounters in Sexuality makes an intervention into the fields of clinical psychoanalysis and sexuality studies, in an effort to think about a range of issues relating to sexuality from a clinical psychoanalytic perspective. This book concentrates on a number of concepts, namely identity, desire, pleasure, perversion, ethics and discourse. The editors, Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson, have chosen queer theory, a sub-field of sexuality studies, as an interlocutor for the clinical contributors, because it is at the forefront of theoretical considerations of sexuality, as well as being both reliant upon and suspicious of psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and discourse. The book brings together a number of psychoanalytic schools of thought and clinical approaches, which are sometimes at odds with one another and thus tend not to engage in dialogue about divisive theoretical concepts and matters of clinical technique. Traditions represented here include: Freudian, Kleinian, Independent, Lacanian, Jungian, and Relational. The volume also stages, for the first time, a sustained clinical psychoanalytic engagement with queer theory. By virtue of its editorial design, this book aims to foster a self-reflective attitude in clinical readers about sexuality which historically has tended toward reification
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Section 1 Queer Theories
- 3 | Pleasure: Jouissance, the Gash of Bliss.
- pp. 101-122
- 5 | Ethics: Out of Line, On Hold.
- pp. 145-170
- Section 2 Psychoanalytic Responses
- 7: On Not Thinking Straight.
- pp. 197-210
- 8: Queer as a New Shelter from Castration.
- pp. 211-222
- 9: The Redress of Psychoanalysis.
- pp. 223-234
- 10: Queer Directions from Lacan.
- pp. 235-244
- 11: Queer Theory Meets Jung.
- pp. 245-260
- 12: Queer Troubles for Psychoanalysis.
- pp. 261-274
- 13: Clinique.
- pp. 275-284
- 15: Enigmatic Sexuality.
- pp. 301-312
- 16: The Transforming Nexus.
- pp. 313-328
- 17: Clinical Encounters.
- pp. 329-342
- 18: Undoing Psychoanalysis.
- pp. 343-356
- 19: "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman"
- pp. 357-368
- 20: Sexual Difference.
- pp. 369-382
- Section 3 Responses to Psychoanalytic Practices: Encountering Queer Theories
- 21: A Plague on Both Your Houses.
- pp. 385-390
- 22: Something Amiss.
- pp. 391-396
- 23: Taking Shelter from Queer.
- pp. 397-402
- 25: Understanding Homophobia.
- pp. 411-418
- Cover Image - There Can Be No Arguments
- Contributors
- pp. 475-486
Additional Information
ISBN
9780998531854
MARC Record
OCLC
1181773701
Pages
494
Launched on MUSE
2020-08-02
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA
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