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Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis: Oedipus Gay

Author(s) : Jorge N. Reitter

Reviews and Endorsements

"Jorge’s text makes a vital intervention in spotlighting the challenges for the psychoanalytic field of remaining true to the unconscious as what precisely cannot be "normalised" and "mainstreamed." The text is a wake-up call to twenty-first century psychoanalysts to learn important lessons from its own history of (hetero)normalisation and to remain open to the heteros of the unconscious and to an ethics of subjectivity that is irreducible to any social classification or cultural appropriation." - Eve Watson, PhD. Psychoanalyst, Dublin, and Editor of Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (2023)　 　

"Not just a compelling critique of the heteronormativity of institutionalized psychoanalysis, Jorge Reitter's book offers a bracing performative speech act whose effects will reverberate for some time to come. Out of the shadows emerges---if we dare to name it---a capaciously queer psychoanalysis for the twenty-first century." _ Tim Dean, James M. Benson Professor in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; author of Beyond Sexuality and editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis.

"Jorge Reitter is one of the present-day most innovative psychoanalysts in Argentina: his work is renowned among all Latin-America psychoanalysts, academics and students who wish to tackle minority gender and sexuality issues. The book very clearly sums up and analyses the main Freudian and Lacanian ambivalent stances on homosexuality and alternative sexualities, and suggests creative ways to renew psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book’s main asset is to try and think of sexuality in terms of power relations, in a Foucauldian approach applied to psychoanalysis, yet from a psychoanalytic point of view." - Thamy Ayouch, Psychoanalyst, Doctor of Research in Psychoanalysis (Université Paris 7), Maître de Conférence (Full Professor) in Clinical Psychology (Université Lille 3), Researcher and director of doctoral research (Université Paris 7), Visiting Professor do Exterior (Universidade de São Paulo), Former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure.

"Jorge N. Reitter's book reminds us that psychoanalysis is first and foremost an act...here an act of writing where the author takes a position, as a psychoanalyst, in the scholarly public debate concerning minoritized sexualities and their conflicting relationships with the theories of Freud or Lacan, which are too often put at the service of a reactionary heteronormativity. As part of Freud's desire, Jorge N. Reitter thus revisits the Oedipus complex and the clinic of castration in the light of LGBTQIA+ approaches from - and this is perhaps the most important - arguments internal to our field." - Lionel Le Corre, psychoanalyst, researcher associated with the CRPMS, Université Paris Cité (France). Doctor in psychoanalytic anthropology. Author of the book Freud's Homosexuality.

"Reitter argues, and I agree with him, that psychoanalysis is not necessarily heteronormative, binary, and patriarchal. Psychoanalysis can do better things than it does by revising that matrix around its nodal concepts. Untying what was tied to conceptions of the time, with what is still sustained and keeps it vital and current. A necessary and avant-garde book that bets on a living psychoanalysis proposing a clinic of the specificity of the intrapsychic and the biopolitical of gay erotica and amorousness, both on the side of the patients and on the side of the analysts." - Débora Tajer, Feminist psychoanalyst and author of the book Psychoanalysis for Everyone. Associate Professor in charge of the "Introduction to Gender Studies" Chair. Regular Associate Professor of the "Public Health/Mental Health II" Chair, Faculty of Psychology, UBA. Co-founder Forum of Psychoanalysis and Gender, Association of Psychologists of Buenos Aires.