The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 30: Rethinking Psychoanalysis and the Homosexualities

by Winer; Jerome A.

• ISBN13: 9780881633665
• ISBN10: 0881633666
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The issue of same-gender sexual identity has challenged our understanding of psychological development and psychological intervention throughout the century just past and continues to provoke discussion in the century upon us. Over the past three decades, psychoanalysis advanced toward a contemporary perspective, which holds that the dynamics of sexual orientation must be an important element of the psychoanalytic process, but must be approached without prejudice regarding the outcome of analytic exploration of wish and desire. Taken together, the essays in Rethinking Psychoanalysis and the Homosexualities, a thematic volume of The Annual of Psychoanalysis, provide a developmentally grounded and clinically consequential enlargement of this basic premise. The result is a timely overview of contemporary approaches to the study of sexual orientation within psychoanalysis that highlights issues salient to clinical work with lesbian and gay patients. The section on "The Meaning of Sexualization in Clinical Psychoanalysis" demonstrates the importance of psychoanalytic study of same-gender desire and sexual orientation for analyst and analysand alike. Philips considers the analyst's own sexual identity as a factor shaping the analysand's experience of sexuality, whereas Shelby, Lynch, Roughton, and Young-Bruehl, from their various perspectives, address the problem of stigma and prejudice as they distort same-gender desire and same-gender sexual identity. Two concluding sections of the book explore the implications of a clinical psychoanalytic perspective for the study of gay and lesbian lives. Timely and essential reading for all mental health professionals, Rethinking Psychoanalysis and the Homosexualitiesunderscores the profound distance traversed by psychoanalysis in arriving at its contemporary understandings of gender, sexual identity, and sexual desire.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Bertram J. Cohler
I HOMOSEXUALITY IN TIME AND PLACE
Other Times, Other Places: Homosexuality in Ancient Greece	9	(14)
Martha C. Nussbaum
On Male Nonnormative Sexuality and Perversion in Psychoanalytic Discourse	23	(14)
Roy Schafer
The Relevance of History to the Psychoanalytic Controversy over Homosexuality	37	(6)
Martin S. Bergmann
The Homosexualities	43	(14)
Ethel Spector Person
II THE QUESTION OF ORIGINS
Causes and Becauses: On Etiological Theories of Homosexuality	57	(12)
Jack Drescher
Homosexuality	69	(14)
Richard C. Friedman
III CHANGING PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON HOMOSEXUALITY
The Two Analyses of a Gay Man: The Interplay of Social Change and Psychoanalytic Understanding	83	(18)
Ralph Roughton
Two Analyses, Two Times: Discussion of Ralph Roughton's Chapter	101	(18)
Bertram J. Cohler
Discussion of Ralph Roughton's Chapter	119	(12)
Marian Tolpin
IV THE MEANING OF SEXUALIZATION IN CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS
The Overstimulation of Everyday Life: II. Male Homosexuality, Countertransference, and Psychoanalytic Treatment	131	(16)
Sidney H. Phillips
Sexualization and the Disavowal of Tender Longings	147	(16)
R. Dennis Shelby
Transference Availability: Discussion of R. Dennis Shelby's Clinical Case	163	(6)
Ralph Roughton
Discussion of R. Dennis Shelby's Clinical Case	169	(6)
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Yearning for Love and Cruising for Sex: Returning to Freud to Understand Some Gay Men	175	(16)
Paul E. Lynch
About Cruising and Being Cruised	191	(20)
R. Dennis Shelby
V FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY
Mirror, Mirror: An Enactment That Stalmated a Psychotherapy	211	(12)
Karen Martin
Discussion of Karen Martin's Clinical Case	223	(8)
Salee Jenkins
Countertransference Dominance: Discussion of Karen Martin's Clinical Case	231	(6)
Beverly P. Keefer
Reply to the Discussions	237	(8)
Karen Martin
Female Adolescence: Difficult for Heterosexual Girls, Hazardous for Lesbians	245	(10)
Beverly P. Keefer
Kelly reene
VI PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
Making a Gay Identity: Coming Out, Social Context, and Psychodynamics	255	(32)
Robert Galatzer-Levy
Bertram J. Cohler
Queering Psychoanalysis	287	(14)
Gary Grossman
Author Index	301	(6)
Subject Index	307