Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis: Oedipus Gay

Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis proposes a critical reading of the Freudian and Lacanian texts that paved the way for a heteronormative bias in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

Jorge N. Reitter’s theoretical-political project engages in a genealogy of how psychoanalysis approached the ‘gay question’ through time. This book obstinately seeks how to dismantle the heteronormative bias in the theories of psychoanalysis that resist new discourses on gender and sexuality. Drawing on developments by Michel Foucault and lesbian and gay studies on queer theory and feminist theorizing, Reitter draws attention to the normalizing devices that permanently regulate sexuality so neglected by psychoanalysis as producers of subjectivities.

Accessibly written, Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis will be key reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as academics and students of psychoanalytic studies, gender studies and sexualities.