ABSTRACT
The subject of this chapter is the contribution made by psychoanalysis to three crucial areas of identity politics: sexual difference, male and female homosexuality, and racism. The general question governing this study arises from the arguments of the previous chapter: how well does psychoanalysis articulate an understanding of the fantasy dimensions of these personal and social positions, refraining from normative assumptions and allowing expression of those aspects of experience usually left out from - or occluded as 'excessive' - in social discourse?
