Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis - Oedipus Gay

Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis proposes a critical reading of the Freudian and Lacanian texts that paved the way for a heteronormative bias in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

List of contents

In the English edition
Prologue by Patricia Gherovici
Prologue to the first edition

1. Heteronormativity and psychoanalysis

1) Oedipus gay
2) The original entanglement. How psychoanalysis could not escape the heteronorm
3) Oedipus reloaded
4) Towards a post-heteronormative Oedipus
II. Miscellanea
5) On the political incorrectness of eroticism
6) Rethinking the possible as such
7) Felix Julius Boehm
III Bonus tracks
8) Talking with Jorge Reitter: neither the Other nor sexuality exists outside of power relations
Epilogue

About the author

Jorge N. Reitter is former teaching assistant in the Clinic for Adults, Faculty of Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is former Chair Professor of Sexuality and the Oedipus Complex at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, and visiting professor at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Summary

Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis proposes a critical reading of the Freudian and Lacanian texts that paved the way for a heteronormative bias in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge N. Reitter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032171821
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3217182-1
• No. of pages: 122
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis