{"product_id":"straight-male-modern-1","title":"Straight Male Modern","description":"\u003cp\u003eMajor psychoanalytic thinkers from Freud to Ricoeur to Lacan considered the Oedipus complex the key to explaining the human psyche and human sexuality, even culture itself. But, in fact, they were merely theorizing males.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this title, originally published in 1993, the author reassesses the benchmark concepts of Freudian thought, building on feminist criticisms of psychoanalysis and the new history of sexuality. The psychoanalytic questions become political questions: How do the norms of heterosexuality and masculinity themselves emerge within modern society and culture? How do the institutions of compulsory heterosexuality and modern patriarchy shape identity and desire? What make heterosexuality compulsory in our society?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenkman argues that the larger social world is part and parcel of the Oedipus complex. He challenges psychoanalysis to reinvent its cultural project, as a therapeutics and an ethics, by recovering the moral-political dimension in its approach to family, sexuality and gender. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStraight Male Modern casts a new light on psychoanalysis’s contribution to modern life, revealing the richness of the Freudian tradition’s encounter with modern politics and culture, and the poverty of its response.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239086346584,"sku":"9781138947078","price":47.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138947078_719f02a1-11a9-4d81-b8e2-6bc7ccf0819e.jpg?v=1769715909","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/straight-male-modern-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}