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Overview2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life that is psychologically conservative and narrow. Even after several decades of combative, dazzling, irreverent queer critical thought, the field remains far from grasping that sexuality's radical potential lies in its being understood as ""exogenous, intersubjective and intrusive"" (Laplanche). In particular, and despite the pervasiveness and popularity of recent calls to deconstruct the ideological foundations of contemporary queer thought, no study has as yet considered or in any way investigated the singular role of psychology in shaping the field's conceptual impasses and politico-ethical limitations. Through close readings of key thinkers in queer theoretical thought-Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Jane Gallop-Homo Psyche introduces metapsychology as a new dimension of analysis vis-a-vis the theories of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who insisted on ""new foundations for psychoanalysis"" that radically departed from existing Freudian and Lacanian models of the mind. Staging this intervention, Ashtor deepens current debates about the future of queer studies by demonstrating how the field's systematic neglect of metapsychology as a necessary and independent realm of ideology ultimately enforces the complicity of queer studies with psychological conventions that are fundamentally erotophobic and therefore inimical to queer theory's radical and ethical project. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gila AshtorPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823294152ISBN 10: 0823294153 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 01 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia | 1 1 What Theory Knew: Sedgwick, Queerness, Hermeneutics | 33 2 The Genealogy of Sex: Bersani, Laplanche, and Self-Shattering Sexuality | 62 3 Boundaries Are for Sissies: Violation in Jane Gallop and Henry James | 85 4 Adults Only: Lee Edelman's No Future and the Limits of Queer Critique | 116 5 Psychology as Ideology-Lite: Butler, and the Trouble with Gender Theory | 141 6 Two Girls2: Sedgwick + Berlant, Relational and Queer | 171 Acknowledgments | 201 Notes | 203 Works Cited | 223 Index | 233ReviewsGila Ashtor's Homo Psyche is a bold and ambitious attempt to rethink the foundations of contemporary queer theory beyond its customary psyche versus anti-psyche (or psychoanalysis versus anti-psychoanalysis) divisions. The need to transcend these pointless divisions--which lead to paralyzing intellectual impasses--is undoubtedly an urgent task. In this sense, Ashtor's book is a timely and astute intervention.---Mari Ruti, author of Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life, and The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects, Gila Ashtor's Homo Psyche is a bold and ambitious attempt to rethink the foundations of contemporary queer theory beyond its customary psyche vs. anti-psyche (or psychoanalysis vs. anti-psychoanalysis) divisions. The need to transcend these pointless divisions--which lead to paralyzing intellectual impasses--is undoubtedly an urgent task. In this sense, Ashtor's book is a timely and astute intervention.--Mari Ruti, author of Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life, and The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects Author InformationGila Ashtor is a critical theorist, psychoanalyst, and writer. She teaches at Columbia University and is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She trained at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and is the author of a book on psychoanalytic theory, Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche, and an experimental memoir, Aural History. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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