
Psychoanalysis and Existentialism
Why Theory
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Queer Theory
I think that queer theory is very close to existentialism, right? Think about Mari Rudy's book, Ethics of Opting Out. Even like Stockton's idea of the queer child is an attempt to recognize the... I don't want to charge her with the crime of Augustine. But I mean, I think what she finds is how the family setup has disintegrated and that she looks for the queer children even in spaces that we would think to find strict heteronormativity. And maybe the error that presents itself, especially in the framework of this conversation, of that project is it just ends up doing the sort of like a Gustinian... Stitching. Yeah, you just stitch it
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