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Title

Disorienting sexuality : psychoanalytic reappraisals of sexual identities / edited by Thomas Domenici, Ronnie C. Lesser ; foreword by Adrienne Harris.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Domenici, Thomas.
• Lesser, Ronnie C.
• Harris, Adrienne.

Description

xv, 299 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This is a collection of essays by mostly lesbian and gay psychoanalysts. Many of the papers were delivered at an important conference at New York University in December of 1993 called "Perspectives on Homosexuality: An Open Dialogue." Psychoanalysis has been relatively conservative in its treatment of homosexuality. Lately, the intervention of feminist theory has had an impact, and now the time has come for lesbian and gay theory to gain a hearing. The first section of this book consists of analysts seeking to have a voice in the reshaping of psychoanalytic theory about sexuality. Some critique theories in this area, and some consider the etiology of anti-homosexual bias within psychoanalysis, the purposes it serves and the potential harm it causes gay and lesbian patients. The second section presents different theoretical perspectives for understanding homosexuality and heterosexuality; and the third section comprises personal accounts by gay and lesbian analysts of anti-homosexual bias in psychoanalytic training and practice.

Subject

• Sex (Psychology)
• Psychoanalysis
• Homosexuality
• Gender identity
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Sexual Behavior > psychology
• Homosexuality
• Psychoanalysis
• Gender Identity
• psychoanalysis
• homosexuality
• sex role
• Psychoanalytiker
• Homosexualität
• Sexualität
• Psychoanalyse
• Seksualiteit
• Sekserol
• Homoseksualiteit
• Psychoanalyse

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Some thoughts on the role of mourning in the development of positive lesbian identity / Lee Crespi -- Exploding the myth of sexual psychopathology : a deconstruction of Fairbairn's anti-homosexual theory / Thomas Domenici -- Countertransference obscurity in the psychoanalytic treatment of homosexual patients / Martin Stephen Frommer -- Objectivity as masquerade / Ronnie C. Lesser -- Psychoanalysis and women's experience of "coming out" : the necessity of becoming a "bee-charmer" / Maggie Magie and Diana C. Miller -- Current psychoanalytic discourses on sexuality : tripping over the body / David Schwartz -- On "our nature" : prolegomenon to a relational theory of sexuality / Muriel Dimen -- Re-reading Freud on homosexuality / Robert May -- Passionate differences : lesbianism, post-modernism, and psychoanalysis / Noreen O'Connor -- Psychoanalysis with gay and lesbian people : an interpersonal perspective / Richard Rutkin -- The evolution of my views on nonnormative sexual practices / Roy Schafer -- Psychoanalytic theories of lesbian desire : a social constructionist critique / Erica Schoenberg -- Anti-homosexual bias in training / Jack Drescher -- The difficulty of being a gay psychoanalyst during the last fifty years : an interview with Dr. Bertram Schaffner / Stephern B. Goldman -- A view from both sides : coming out as a lesbian psychoanalyst / April Martin -- Concluding remarks : the shaping of psychoanalytic theory and practice by cultural and personal biases about sexuality / Mark J. Blechner.

ISBN

• 0415911974
• 9780415911979
• 0415911982
• 9780415911986

LCCN

95038513

OCLC

• ocm33102957
• 33102957
• SCSB-2072282

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library