We are a network of scholars, writers, and students invested in researching and promoting psychoanalytic methodologies for the study of q***r culture and identity. By “q***r” we do not limit our scope to gay and le***an culture, but instead we aim to broaden the concept of q***r to encompass all non-normative social practices. We recognize the role that innovations in psychoanalytic theory has pla
yed in the development and theorization of q***r identity over the course of the past century, from Freud’s concept of polymorphous perversity that posits all subjects begin in a pre-hetero/homo q***r state to Lacan’s split subject for whom there is no natural complimentarity between the object and the aim of desire in the symbolic. Our network aims to bring attention to new work in the fields of psychoanalysis and q***r theory and to encourage their cross-pollination through communication across disciplines. The Q***r Psychoanalysis Society does not endorse any one methodology over others, nor do we adhere dogmatically to every psychoanalytic principle. Rather, we believe that all methodologies should be held to a critical lens and that a constructive discourse woven out of multiple perspectives will expand the horizons of psychoanalytic and q***r inquiry. We welcome contributions from scholars, writers, and artists that work in the field of q***r studies and/or psychoanalysis and we welcome you to submit an inquiry to our email account about featuring your work.
