Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality (The Master Work)

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Summary: A Worthwhile History
Review: Kenneth Lewes does an exemplary job of documenting the psychoanalytic theory of male homosexuality as well as documenting the political and social implications of that theory. The history of psychoanalytic animus toward gay identities is explored. This is an important reference book on the subject that no serious scholar should overlook. The book's major weakness is its attempt to find a "psychonalytically-correct" interpretation for the origins of homosexuality using the neo-Freudian paradigm of the negative oedipus complex. Nevertheless, compared to others who have tried this approach, the author does one of the most creative jobs of it.