The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis And the Impossible Absolute of Desire - Couverture rigide

Penney, James

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ISBN 10 : 0791467694 ISBN 13 : 9780791467695

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2006

Synopsis

An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective.

In The World of Perversion, James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose-and indeed everything to gain-by reclaiming the psychoanalytic concept of perversion as psychic structure. Analyzing the antagonism between psychoanalytic approaches to perversion and those inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, Penney explores how different assumptions about sexuality have determined the development of contemporary queer theory, and how the universalizing approach to homosexuality in psychoanalysis actually leads to more useful political strategies for nonheterosexual subjects. Having established this theoretical context, Penney focuses on works by Georges Bataille, Blaise Pascal, Denis Diderot, and Jacques Lacan, tracing the implications of various sexual and moral understandings of the term perversion, and illustrating how a psychoanalytic approach to the question of perversion enables politicized readings that are foreclosed by a Foucauldian methodology.

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James Penney is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University. He is the author of The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire, also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791467694
• ISBN 13: 9780791467695
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 259
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible