Psychoanalysis And Male Homosexuality
This landmark book is the first and only historical, cultural, and theoretical account of how male homosexuality has been viewed—and frequently misconstrued and distorted—by the psychoanalytic tradition from Freud through the 1980s. In this groundbreaking survey, Kenneth Lewes shows how the original psychoanalytic ideals of understanding and compassion were betrayed by later psychoanalytic clinicians and theorists. Reconsidering Freud and his early followers in a new light, Lewes shows how...
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This landmark book is the first and only historical, cultural, and theoretical account of how male homosexuality has been viewed_and sometimes misconstrued_by the psychoanalytic tradition, from Freud through the 1980s.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1995: Nature and CultureIIntroduction 1988: Normality and Pathology1IIFreud12IIIThe Early Freudians: 1900-193036IVTheoretical Overview I57VThe Theorists of the Oral Period: 1930-194883VIAnalytic Responses to the Kinsey Report110VIIConservative Developments: 1948-1962128VIIITheoretical Overview II161IXThe Turnaround: 1962-1973172XA New Beginning: 1973-1982201XIConclusions218Notes231Bibliography247Index275
\ Martin Bauml DubermanThis is an enormously important book. A work of profound scholarship and equally profound compassion, it places the psychoanalytic view of male homosexuality in historical perspective for the first time...Lewes brilliantly recaptures the views of the early analytic school and contrasts its complexity and comparative open-mindedness with the simplistic, polemical, and abusive dogma that subsequently gained hold...It is a model of dispassionate yet engaged research, a milestone in the restoration of human values.\ \ \ \ \ Louis Crompton...after the death of Freud, American psychoanalysis provided strong support for the traditional prejudices against homosexuality in our society, often with devastating social and legal consequences. Kenneth Lewes's book is a carefully written, scholarly account of how its theories promoted this bigotry. The courage, candor, and honesty with which he treats this painful theme are admirable.\ \ \ Vern L. BulloughI think it is the best overview of the psychoanalytic attitudes toward homosexuality that I have read. It emphasizes how much psychoanalysts were prisoners of their own prejudices...Hopefully, this book will lead psychoanalysts to do the kind of critical examination of their own discipline and assumptions which every scholarly and scientific discipline should. Lewes has certainly finished enough data for them to start such an examination.\ \ \ \ \ Ritch C. Savin-WilliamsLewes's book is perhaps the most important work on psychoanalysis and homosexuality since Freud ... All future attempts to understand psychoanalytic conceptualizations and treatments of homosexuality must now begin with Lewes's monograph.\ \
