Article
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2007) 12, 21–25. doi:10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100104
Reflections on Psychoanalysis & Non-Normative Desire: An Introduction
Scott Pytluk1 and Dennis Debiak2
- 1Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University, Chicago, IL, USA
- 2Widener University, One University Place, Chester, PA, USA
Correspondence: Scott Pytluk, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University/Chicago, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago, IL 60654, USA.
Abstract
In this introduction, the authors present a collection of papers exploring the troubled relationship between psychoanalysis and non-normative desire. Specifically, the four paper contributors offer critical suggestions that allow for affirmative theorizing of non-normative desire. Finally, the authors describe the history of the Sexualities & Gender Identities Committee of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association and its series of panels from which the current papers were adapted.
Keywords:
desire, gender identity, non-normative, pathologization, sexual orientation
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