ABSTRACT
The author offers a queer theory to explore emotions and sexualities because it provides an alternative framework to modern conventional models established, challenge the use of binary configurations and complicate identity. Heterosexuality is the product of such a rehearsal and emotion is central to its overall configuration. The word 'heterosexual' like the word 'homosexual', is simply a scientific adjective, historically and socially immature, and part of modernity's. The rise of therapeutic ideologies and their location within the civilising process has taken prominent position within western discourses of the self and in particular the sexual self, over the past hundred years. The word 'heterosexual' like the word 'homosexual', is simply a scientific adjective, historically and socially immature, and part of modernity's quest for order and rationality over the chaotic and irrational body. Therapeutic organisations have expanded to such a degree that they now 'influence and arguably dominate the public's system of meaning', thus shaping the predominantly heterosexualised 'cultural imagination'.
