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Through close readings of key thinkers in queer theoretical thought—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Jane Gallop—Homo Psyche introduces metapsychology as a new dimension of analysis vis-à-vis the theories of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who insisted on \"new foundations for psychoanalysis\" that radically departed from existing Freudian and Lacanian models of the mind. Staging this intervention, Ashtor deepens current debates about the future of queer studies by demonstrating how the field's systematic neglect of metapsychology as a necessary and independent realm of ideology ultimately enforces the complicity of queer studies with psychological conventions that are fundamentally erotophobic and therefore inimical to queer theory's radical and ethical project.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738852172049,"sku":"NGR9780823294169","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0823294161.jpg?v=1751044469"},{"product_id":"homo-psyche-book-gila-ashtor-9780823294152","title":"Homo Psyche","description":"Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award  2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies  Can queer theory be erotophobic? 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She graduated with an MA in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Literature from Tufts University in 2016. Her research specializations include queer theory, psychoanalysis, trauma, affect studies and pedagogy. Her academic writing focuses on the relationship between queer theory and psychoanalysis and is the subject of her forthcoming book, \u003ci\u003eHomo Psyche: Queer Theory and Metapsychology.\u003c\/i\u003e Her clinical writing is primarily oriented to post-Freudian technique and theory and specifically explores the metapsychology of Jean Laplanche in the context of affect and sexuality studies. She is an Editor of \u003ci\u003eStudies in Gender and Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e and is completing her MFA in Nonfiction at Columbia University. 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