Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics by Lui... - 9781032543819

Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual PoliticsFrom Norm to Desire\nAuthor(s): Luiz Valle Junior\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032543819, 978-1032543819\nSynopsis\nQueer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics is a consideration of the relationship between LGBTQIA+ politics, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory.\n\nThe book argues, through readings of Judith Butlers Gender Trouble and Lee Edelmans No Future, that core queer categories such as normativity and anti-normativity sidestep questions that are crucial not only to contemporary sexual politics but also to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical work. Luiz Valle Junior attends to the queer account of the political shortcomings of the contemporary LGBTQIA+ movement, as well as to the inadequacies of the queer reception of Lacanian psychoanalysis and makes a case for the ongoing relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis to thinking th.