The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond - Paperback

by Vanessa Sinclair (Editor), Elisabeth Punzi (Editor), Myriam Sauer (Editor)

The Queerness of Psychoanalysis is an exploration of psychoanalysis' often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its multifaceted heritage.

Author Biography

Vanessa Sinclair is a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. She is the host of Rendering Unconscious Podcast and a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. She sits on the International Advisory Board of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and is an Editorial Advisor for Parapraxis magazine. Dr. Sinclair is the author of Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and the editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023) and On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Manya Steinkoler.

Elisabeth Punzi is a licensed psychologist and a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Gothenburg University, Sweden. She leads a project concerning heritage and health at the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University and teaches psychoanalytic theory, psychology of religion, qualitative research methods, and many other topics.

Myriam Sauer is a PhD candidate at the Latin-America Institute of Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, as well as a writer and poet. Her primary academic interests lie in the fields of psychoanalysis, queer studies, literature, and sociology.