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Beyond Sexuality

Beyond Sexuality

Dean, Tim

Paperback

General PsychologySexuality

ISBN10: 0226139352
ISBN13: 9780226139357
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 1 2000
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.07
Language: English
Beyond Sexuality points contemporary sexual politics in a radically new direction. Combining a psychoanalytic emphasis on the unconscious with a deep respect for the historical variability of sexual identities, this original work of queer theory makes the case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Tim Dean develops a reading of Jacques Lacan that-rather than straightening out this notoriously difficult French psychoanalyst-brings out the queer tensions and productive incoherencies in his account of desire.

Dean shows how the Lacanian unconscious deheterosexualizes desire, and along the way he reveals how psychoanalytic thinkers as well as queer theorists have failed to exploit the full potential of this conception of desire. The book elaborates this by investigating social fantasies about homosexuality and AIDS, including gay men's own fantasies about sex and promiscuity, in an attempt to illuminate the challenges facing safe-sex education. Taking on many shibboleths in contemporary psychoanalysis and queer theory-and taking no prisoners-Beyond Sexuality offers an antidote to hagiographical strains in recent work on psychoanalysis, Foucault, and sexuality.

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