Psychoanalysis and Queer Theory Resources

 

Freud’s Works Online

Three Essays on Sexuality (translated as Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex)

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego

Reflections on War and Death

Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence

The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

The Interpretation of Dreams

The Uncanny

Introductory Materials on Psychoanalysis

Craig Chalquist’s Glossary of Freudian Terms

Doug Davis’ Glossary of Freudian Terminology

Study Guides on Freud’s Major works

Dino Felluga’s Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory

Dino Felluga’s Introduction to Jacques Lacan’s Theories of the Mirror Stage, Desire, and the Gaze

Introduction to the works of Melanie Klein

Introduction to the works of Karen Horney

Slavoj Zizek on “How To Read Lacan”

Laura Mulvey’s classic essay on psychoanalysis, gender, and film theory:  “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”

Queer Theory Texts and Sites Online

Annamarie Jagose’s early, brief primer on queer theory from 1996

Dino Felluga’s introduction to Judith Butler’s theory of performativity

Extracts from “Gender as Performance: An Interview with Judith Butler”

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: “Gender Criticism: What Isn’t Gender”

Tim Dean’s work on queer theory and “The Pornography of Risk”

Interview with Kathryn Bond Stockton♦ on queer theory and childhood

Interview with Elizabeth Grosz about her work on queer theory and psychoanalysis

Interview with David Halperin on queer theory and academia

USC English professor and drag king Judith “Jack” Halberstam’s home page

Bully Bloggers: a queer cultural criticism blog

Lauren Berlant’s blog, “Supervalent Thought”

Reviews of Essential Queer Theory Works

Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader By Gayle S. Rubin

Gender Trouble By Judith Butler

Epistemology of the Closet By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

The Weather in Proust By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

How to Be Gay By David Halperin

Gay Shame By David Halperin and Valerie Traub

Publics and Counterpublics By Michael Warner

In a Queer Time and Place By Judith Halberstam

The Queer Art of Failure By Judith Halberstam

Cruel Optimism By Lauren Berlant

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive By Lee Edelman

Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America By David L. Eng

Queering the Color Line By Siobahn Somerville

Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings By Eithne Luibheid and Lionel Cantu Jr

Beyond Sexuality By Tim Dean

The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century By Kathryn Bond Stockton ♦

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times By Jasbir Puar

Assuming a Body: Transgender and the Rhetorics of Materiality’ by Gayle Salamon