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Tim Dean is an associate professor of English and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Beyond Sexuality and Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious.

Christopher Lane is an associate professor of English and director of psychoanalytic studies at Emory University. He is the author of The Ruling Passion and The Burdens of Intimacy, and editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race.

Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic concepts for queer theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan, Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire, they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism, disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love. Including previously untranslated material by Michel Foucault, Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis will interest cultural theorists, psychoanalysts, and everyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in our time.