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What’s Queer About Psychoanalysis?
by Chase Dimock Whenever I “out” myself as a student of Freud, I am inevitably greeted with comments like “Isn’t that the guy who said we all secretly want to have sex with our moms?” or “You know...
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What’s Queer About “The Trip” ?
by Chase Dimock To an American audience, I would not have to strain too desperately to prove that there is something gay about a movie featuring two British men touring gourmet restaurants in the...
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The Surreal Sex of Beauty: Jean Cocteau and Man Ray’s “Le Numéro Barbette”
by Chase Dimock In 1923, the American acrobat Vander Clyde better known by his stage name “Barbette” made his theater debut in Paris at the famed Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère and captivated the...
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Robert McAlmon’s Psychoanalyzed Girl and the Popularization of Psychoanalysis...
Freud (far left seated) and Jung (far right, seated) at Clark University in 1909 by Chase Dimock A writer, publisher, and a connoisseur of the Parisian nightlife, Robert McAlmon was a fixture of the...
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From the Same Source as Her Power: A Threnody for Adrienne Rich
by Chase Dimock (This article originally appeared on As It Ought To Be) How do we account for and preserve a writer’s power after she dies? At the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, any researcher who...
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The Erotics of Melancholia: Natalie Clifford Barney’s “The One Who is Legion:...
by Chase Dimock In the author’s note for her 1930 novel The One Who is Legion: or A.D.’s Afterlife, Natalie Clifford Barney writes: “For years I have been haunted by the idea that I should orchestrate...
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Saint Turing: A Few Reflections on Gay Iconography and Martyrdom on the...
by Chase Dimock This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of British mathematician Alan Turing’s birth. In celebration of his enormous contributions to the fields of mathematics, computational science,...
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What’s Queer About Psychoanalysis?
by Chase Dimock Whenever I “out” myself as a student of Freud, I am inevitably greeted with comments like “Isn’t that the guy who said we all secretly want to have sex with our moms?” or “You know...
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Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me?: Reclaiming Mae West as Author...
by Chase Dimock We know Mae West as an actress, a sex symbol, a cultural icon, a comedienne, a master of the one liner and the double entendre. What we don’t think of Mae West as is an author. It...
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“No, Psychoanalysis is Not Against Gay Marriage” or How Psychoanalysis...
by Chase Dimock … As I write, the French parliament is embroiled in a protracted debate over President François Hollande’s push to legalize gay marriage and adoption in France. The controversy...
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Tea
The third in our on-going series of articles on “The Screen” … by Matthew Terrell Pre-TEA: … When I was a kid I had the feeling that the world—those around me—perceived me as off. Not that I was a bad...
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Growing up on the Island of Misfit Toys or: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer as...
The sixth in our on-going series of articles on “The Screen” by Chase Dimock … The Misfit Narrative and Queer Youth The narrative of the misfit character struggling to find his place in the world is a...
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Contemporary Metrosexuality III: Crimes of Fashion
The Fourth Article in our on-going Series: “The End of Heterosexuality?” … by Michael Angelo Tata . Which is the history of the epicene, the eerie man-child who retains a certain softness which may be...
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Saint Turing: A Few Reflections on Gay Iconography and Martyrdom on the...
by Chase Dimock (This essay was originally published in 2012 on The Qouch in honor of Turing’s 100th birthday. With the resurgence of interest in Turing’s life following the Oscar buzz surrounding The...
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