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Tim Dean

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Beyond SexualityBeyond Sexuality by Tim Dean

Beyond Sexuality points contemporary sexual politics in a radically new direction. Combining a psychoanalytic emphasis on the unconscious with a deep respect for the historical variability of sexual identities, this original work of queer theory makes the case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Tim Dean develops a reading of Jacques Lacan that--rather than straightening out this notoriously difficult French psychoanalyst--brings out the queer tensions and productive incoherencies in his account of desire. Dean shows how the Lacanian unconscious "deheterosexualizes" desire, and along the way he reveals how psychoanalytic thinkers as well as queer theorists have failed to exploit the full potential of this conception of desire. The book elaborates this by investigating social fantasies about homosexuality and AIDS, including gay men's own fantasies about sex and promiscuity, in an attempt to illuminate the challenges facing safe-sex education. Taking on many shibboleths in contemporary psychoanalysis and queer theory--and taking no prisoners--Beyond Sexuality offers an antidote to hagiographical strains in recent work on psychoanalysis, Foucault, and sexuality.

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Homosexuality and PsychoanalysisHomosexuality and Psychoanalysis by Tim Dean (Editor), Christopher Lane (Editor)

Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan, Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire, they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism, disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love. Including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault, Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis will interest cultural theorists, psychoanalysts, and anyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in our time.

Contributors: Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, Daniel L. Buccino, Arnold I. Davidson, Tim Dean, Jonathan Dollimore, Brad Epps, Michel Foucault, Lynda Hart, Jason B. Jones, Christopher Lane, H. N. Lukes, Catherine Millot, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ellie Ragland, Paul Robinson, Judith Roof, Joanna Ryan, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, Suzanne Yang

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Organizations & Institutions

University of Illinois

  

Fields of Study
Primary:  Queer Theory
Secondary:  Psychoanalytic Theory
Interests: Poetry and Poetics, Modernism, Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, Aesthetics

  

Published Works:  Books

Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground. London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Beyond Sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.  For a sample chapter:  Click Here.

Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (coedited with Christopher Lane).  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming spring 2001.

     

Published Works:  Articles

"T. S. Eliot, Famous Clairvoyante," T. S. Eliot: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Desire, ed. Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2001.

"Homosexuality and the Problem of Otherness," Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis, ed. Tim Dean and Christopher Lane, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2001.

"Historicizing Lacan?" Proving Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Evidentiary Force of Disciplinary Knowledge, ed. David Metzger and Ellie Ragland, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2001.

"The Other's Voice: Cultural Imperialism and Poetic Impersonality in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End, "Contemporary Literature 41:3 (2000): 462-494.

"Gender: The Impossibility of Meaning" (with Cynthia Dyess, MD), Psychoanalytic Dialogues:  A Journal of Relational Perspectives, 10:5 (2000):  735-756.

"Relational Trouble" (with Cynthia Dyess, MD), Psychoanalytic Dialogues: A Journal of Relational Perspectives, 10:5 (2000):  787-794.

"Strange Paradise:  An Essay on Mark Doty." 

"What's the Point of Psychoanalytic Criticism?" Oxford Literary Review 20:1&2 (1998): 143-162.

"The Germs of Empires: Heart of Darkness, Colonial Trauma, and the Historiography of AIDS," The Psychoanalysis of Race, ed. Christopher Lane, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 305-329.

"Paring His Fingernails: Homosexuality and Joyce's Impersonalist Aesthetic," Quare Joyce, ed. Joseph Valente, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 241-272.

"The Medium Really Is the Message: Commentary on Michael J. Bader's Paper," Psychoanalytic Dialogues: A Journal of Relational Perspectives 8:1 (1998): 33-43.

"How Can Psychoanalysis Help Safe-Sex Education?" JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 2:2 (1997): 81-100.

(with Hal Foster and Kaja Silverman) "A Conversation with Leo Bersani," October 82 (1997): 3-16.

"Two Kinds of Other and Their Consequences," Critical Inquiry 23:4 (1997): 910-920.

"Hart Crane's Poetics of Privacy," American Literary History 8:1 (1996): 83-109.

"Sex and Syncope," Raritan 15:3 (1996): 64-86.

"On the Eve of a Queer Future," Raritan 15:1 (1995): 116-34.

"Bodies that Mutter: Rhetoric and Sexuality," Pre/Text 15:1&2 (1994): 80-117.

"Transsexual Identification, Gender Performance Theory, and the Politics of the Real," Literature and Psychology 39:4 (1993): 1-27.

"Wanting Paul de Man: A Critique of the 'Logic' of New Historicism in American Studies," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 35:2 (1993): 251-77.

"The Psychoanalysis of AIDS," October 63 (1993): 83-116.

"How Long Is the Pound Era?" Paideuma 21:1&2 (1992): 45-63.

"Psychopoetics of Lexicography: Johnson with Lacan," Literature and Psychology 37:4 (1991):  9-28.

 

Current Projects

Modernism and the Ethics of Impersonality (book project)

The Otherness of Art (book project)

  

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