"After Queer Theory" makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signalling the end of anti-homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. Through a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), Penney insists that the way to implant sexuality in the field of political antagonism is paradoxically to abandon the exhausted premise of a politicised sexuality. "After...
"After Queer Theory" makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within cap...
Both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand--its final desperate attempt to keep the truth of the unconscious at bay. Both also viewed the transference as a social phenomenon. In The Structures of Love James Penney argues that transference is the concept with which psychoanalysis thinks through the unconscious demands that circumscribe and can sabotage our creative initiatives in the arts and politics. Penney suggests a method of cultural analysis that enables us to identity the transformative potential of genuine artistic and political acts. He stages a...
Both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand--its final desperate attempt to keep the truth of the unconscious at bay. Both a...
