Queer Theory: Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis | A. Pellegrini
PERF-GT 1035.001 (17904) - Tuesdays 3:45pm to 6:45pm
4 pts – In-Person, 721 Broadway, 6th Fl., Room 613
If queer theory has never been of one mind about psychoanalysis, this may be because psychoanalysis has never been of one mind about homosexuality, let alone queerness. Rather than resolve this tension, this seminar seeks to stay with this ambivalence, asking what resources each of them might offer the other. “Sex” and “sexuality” are key concepts for both psychoanalysis and queer theory. Both also share an interest in the limits of identity, the ways lived experience so often exceeds our capacity to name – let alone classify – desires, pleasures, relations, embodiments. Nevertheless, queer theory alerts us to how the categories we are called to think with, in the classroom and consulting room, may carry with them unexamined assumptions and biases. This class will examine key texts in psychoanalysis and queer theory – and stretch into recent pressures that trans theory brings to bear on both – as we together explore this cross-pollination, the history of power it is embedded in, and implications for both theory and practice, including clinical practice.