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Afterword: Reflections on the Encounters between Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory

Chapter of: Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory(pp. 445–473)

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TitleAfterword
SubtitleReflections on the Encounters between Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory
ContributorEve Watson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0167.1.31
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-queer-theory/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightWatson, Eve
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2017-03-07
Long abstractClinical Encounters in Sexuality brings together two altogether different disciplines that address the field of human sexual-ity: clinical psychoanalysis and queer theory. This encounter is underpinned by the centrality of sexuality to both disciplines and the crucial nature of psychoanalytic theory to queer the-ory’s theorization of gender and sexuality. Beginning with Sig-mund Freud, psychoanalysis has a long history of turning to other fields such as philosophy, art, literature, linguistics, sci-ence, mathematics, and religion to develop and differentiate its major themes. This collection adds the work of queer theory to this list of co-conspirators addressing the question of what it is to be uniquely human, especially important today in light of the homogenizing effects of globalization, marketization and digitalization. Queer theory proffers a breadth of critical think-ing about contemporary sexuality, mechanisms of bio-power and regimes of normativization for psychoanalysts to address themselves to. Queer theory’s use of psychoanalysis is critical to its Foucault-inspired project of critically exploring desire, pleasure, identity and the social fabric itself. Psychoanalysts, for their part, offer psychoanalytic theory, clinical practice and the extraordinary value of the clinical vignette, the psychoanalytic tool par excellence. In addition, theorists of psychoanalysis and sexuality bring their insights to bear on this “queer” marriage between psychoanalysis and queer theory for readers to add to their experience of the book.
Page rangepp. 445–473
Print length29 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Eve Watson

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Independent Colleges Dublin
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2871-6433