ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis has a complex history with queer lives. Freud’s own insights into human sexual life were profoundly misinterpreted by generations of practitioners who came after him as well as by generations of second-wave feminist thinkers. Freud’s work has only recently been revived as the resource that it is for both feminist and queer theory. But what about what actually happens on the couch, so to speak? As a practice, is psychoanalysis salvageable? Is there a way to overcome the limits of the seemingly paternalistic relationship between analyst and analysand? Is there a vision for an ethically informed psychoanalysis? To answer these questions I turn to a potential rapprochement between psychoanalysis and phenomenology and ask the additional question, what would it mean to queer psychoanalysis?
