| Title | A Plague on Both Your Houses |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Stephen Frosh(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0167.1.23 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-queer-theory/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Frosh, Stephen |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2017-03-07 |
| Long abstract | It is tempting to suggest that the staging of an encounter in this book has served mainly to dramatize the incommensurability of psychoanalysis and queer theory. Perhaps there are really two separate theaters, one in which queer celebrations of disruptive-ness goes on, and one in which psychoanalysts and psychother-apists try to bring order to confusions of desire, identity and identification. Lisa Downing articulates one of the key opposi-tions in focusing on perversion: For clinical psychoanalysts, perversion is sexuality gone awry; the failure of the subject to attain adult genitality. For queer theorists, on the other hand, perversion may be construed as a defiant performance of excess that shows up the constructedness and arbitrariness of the category of the “normal,” and it is centrally implicated in queer’s rejection of the meaning of identity in favor of the politics of practice. |
| Page range | pp. 385–390 |
| Print length | 6 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |