The question of the relationship between homosexuality, transsexuality, and psychoanalysis has long plagued the field. Answers to this question have typically taken the form of either pathologizing or affirmative accounts of homosexuality and transsexuality, with both accounts recouping the work of Freud to warrant their position.

Pink Herrings seeks to move the field beyond these two accounts by taking as its organizing principle the claim that the unconscious is not organized in relationship to a pre-given sexual orientation or gender identity. Rather, through a Lacanian...

This book draws together research on posthumanism and studies of kinship to elaborate an account of western human kinship practices. Studies of kinship have increasingly sought to critique the normative assumptions that often underpin how caring relationships between humans are understood. The categorisation of 'human' and 'kinship' is brought into question and this book examines who might be excluded through adherence to accepted categories and how a critical lens may broaden our understanding of caring relationships. Bringing together a diverse array of analytic foci and theoretical lenses,...