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• Short-listed for Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies 2022
• Winner of Alan Bray Memorial Book Award 2022

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Gila Ashtor's Homo Psyche is a bold and ambitious attempt to rethink the foundations of contemporary queer theory beyond its customary psyche vs. anti-psyche (or psychoanalysis vs. anti-psychoanalysis) divisions. The need to transcend these pointless divisions--which lead to paralyzing intellectual impasses--is undoubtedly an urgent task. In this sense, Ashtor's book is a timely and astute intervention.--Mari Ruti, author of Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life, and The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects

Gila Ashtor's Homo Psyche is a bold and ambitious attempt to rethink the foundations of contemporary queer theory beyond its customary psyche versus anti-psyche (or psychoanalysis versus anti-psychoanalysis) divisions. The need to transcend these pointless divisions--which lead to paralyzing intellectual impasses--is undoubtedly an urgent task. In this sense, Ashtor's book is a timely and astute intervention.---Mari Ruti, author of Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life, and The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects,

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Gila Ashtor is a critical theorist, psychoanalyst, and writer. She teaches at Columbia University and is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She trained at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and is the author of a book on psychoanalytic theory, Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche, and an experimental memoir, Aural History.

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