Deconstructing Normativity?

Deconstructing Normativity? brings together a unique collection of chapters in which an international selection of contributors reflect on the fundamental and often very radical ideas present in Freud’s original 1905 edition of the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality .

"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

"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

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.