1st Edition
Deconstructing Normativity? Re-reading Freud’s 1905 Three Essays
1. Introduction: Excavating a Theory of Sexuality Philippe van Haute & Herman Westerink 2. Understanding Freud’s conflicted View of the Object-Relatedness of Sexuality and its Implications for Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Re-examination of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Rachel Blass 3. Freud’s Discussion with Psychiatry on Sexuality, Drives and Objects in Three Essays Herman Westerink 4. The pre-Freudian Modernization of Sexuality: Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll Harry Oosterhuis 5. The Mystery of the Erased Sentence in Freud’s Three Essays Patrick Vandermeersch 6. Freud reads Krafft-Ebing – The Case of Sadism and Masochism Jens De Vleminck 7. Variations, Components, and Accidents: Critical Reflections on Freud’s Concept of the Drive Monique David-Ménard 8. Lacan meets Freud? Patho-analytic Reflections on the Status of the Perversions in Lacanian Metapsychology Philippe van Haute 9. Epilogue: The Three Essays Today Philippe van Haute & Herman Westerink
Biography
Philippe Van Haute is professor of philosophical anthropology at Radboud University, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a practising psychoanalyst and was president of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis from 2006 to 2009.
Herman Westerink is lecturer at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
"Freud’s Three Essays is treated here as a palimpsest that contributors tease apart with forensic care. Van Haute and Westerink, masterminding a vital de-heterosexualizing of psychoanalysis, present a dramatically revised theory of sexuality. From Deconstructing Normativity? emerges a compelling picture of Freud as the original anti-Oedipus." - — Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author of Unlimited Intimacy
‘Deconstructing Normativity? is an important and timely collection that sheds new light on Freud’s Three Essays of Sexuality. This volume makes a vital contribution to contemporary discussions of sexuality and psychoanalysis.’ – Elissa Marder, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emory University, USA
