{"product_id":"beyond-sexuality-paperback-1","title":"Beyond Sexuality - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTim Dean\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond 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. \u003cbr\u003eDean 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDean 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--\u003ci\u003eBeyond Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e offers an antidote to hagiographical strains in recent work on psychoanalysis, Foucault, and sexuality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Dean\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Department of English and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of \u003ci\u003eGary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 318\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9.07 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47356146188537,"sku":"9780226139357","price":61.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WFRrTDJuWDZlTlBWK24wNEY3WGxDUT09_1d650466-9ad9-4e09-9e70-abf1fbb82a8a.webp?v=1769858781","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/beyond-sexuality-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}