Queerowanie Freuda, queerowanie Lacana? O queerowo-psychoanalitycznych użytkach i nieużytkach
Journal Title: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
The article focuses on different attitudes towards psychoanalysis within the frames of queer theory. Is psychoanalysis conservative power serving stabilisation of social order or has it subversive potentiality which goes hand in hand with queer politics? How Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, Didier Eribon and other queer theorists use psychoanalytical tools in their writings? What are the similarities between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Foucauldian “history of sexuality” understood as the starting point of queer theory? Are psychoanalytic ideas rooted in given social conditions (as Oedipus complex) useful in describing queer reformulations of relationships and social conditions which “produced” psychoanalysis? The author tries to answer abovementioned questions but the answers are always partial and unsatisfactory as the relation between queer theory and psychoanalysis is tortous and sophisticated: queer thinking can cut psychoanalysis off (as Didier Eribon proposes) but it can be psychoanalytically motivated as well (as in Lee Edelman's theoretical proposals). Dans l’article l’auteur se concentre sur des attitudes différentes par rapport à la psychanalyse au sein de la théorie queer. Est-ce que la psychanalyse est une force conservatrice servant à la stabilisation de l’ordre social , ou bien elle contient le potentiel de la subversion conforme aux règles de la « politique queer » ? Comment Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman et Didier Eribon, ainsi que les autres théoriciens queer, profitent des outils offerts par la psychanalyse ? Quelles ressemblances peut-on retrouver entre la psychanalyse de Lacan et « l’histoire de la sexualité » de Foucault, qui est considérée comme une inspiration de queer ? Est-ce que les idées psychanalytiques, enracinées dans des conditions sociales déterminées (comme le complexe d’Oedipe) peuvent être utiles dans la description des reformulations queer des relations interpersonnelles et des conditions sociales qui ont engendré la psychanalyse ? L’auteur cherche à répondre aux questions formulées ainsi, mais les réponses sont partielles et non satisfaisantes, parce que les rapports entre la théorie queer et la psychanalyse sont compliqués et équivoques : la pensée queer peut se détacher de la psychanalyse (ce que propose Didier Eribon), mais elle peut étre également motivée par la psychanalyse (comme les propositions théoriques de Lee Edelman).
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Wojciech Śmieja
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