The Unpredictable Future of Fantasy's Traversal

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ID3774510
AuthorsChris Coffman (0000-0001-7878-4077, English DepartmentUniversity of Alaska FairbanksPO Box 755720Fairbanks, AK 99775-5720USA, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume18
Issue4
Pages43-61
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAngelaki (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0969725x.2013.869023
OpenAlexW2049308182
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited27

This essay seeks to go beyond the arguments of Lee Edelman's 2004 Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2004. Print.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar] No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Edelman's book uses Jacques Lacan's theory of the sinthome to critique the homophobic ideology of reproductive futurism, which seeks to guarantee the future in the name of the child. Edelman uses Lacan to argue that queer theory should forgo any engagement with a politics of the future, and that queers should instead embrace the position of the reviled sinthomosexual, whose embrace of jouissance in the Real undercuts reprofuturity. By contrast, this essay offers an alternative interpretation of Lacan's theory of the sinthome that sustains several productive accounts of a future that could lie beyond the fantasy of reproductive futurism - options that are far more promising for queer theory than Edelman's refusal of all politics and signification

Death drive · Queer theory · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics

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