Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory: Queering the Clinic

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ABSTRACTIn our response to Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice & Queer Theory we acknowledge the volume’s considerable contribution to restarting the dialogue between clinical practice and queer theory and highlight three fields in which the debate should be extended with insights from Deleuzian theory. These fields are the problematization of key terms, such as desire and the unconscious; the place of psychoanalysis in the contemporary field of sociopolitical forces and discourses; and the ultimate aim of psychoanalysis as a praxis between client and analyst.