Philippe Van Haute is professor of philosophical anthropology at Radboud University, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a practising psychoanalyst and was president of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis from 2006 to 2009. Herman Westerink is lecturer at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

• Introduction: excavating a theory of sexuality 1. Understanding Freud’s conflicted view of the object-relatedness of sexuality and its implications for contemporary psychoanalysis: a re-examination of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 2. Freud’s discussion with psychiatry on sexuality, drives and objects in Three Essays 3. The pre-Freudian modernization of sexuality: Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll 3. The mystery of the erased sentence in Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 5. Freud reads Krafft-Ebing: the case of sadism and masochism 6. Variations, components and accidents: critical reflections on Freud’s concept of the drive 7. Lacan meets Freud? Patho-analytic reflections on the status of the perversions in Lacanian metapsychology Epilogue: the Three Essays today

"Freud’s Three Essays is treated here as a palimpsest that contributors tease apart with forensic care. Van Haute and Westerink, masterminding a vital de-heterosexualizing of psychoanalysis, present a dramatically revised theory of sexuality. From Deconstructing Normativity? emerges a compelling picture of Freud as the original anti-Oedipus." - — Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author of Unlimited Intimacy"Deconstructing Normativity? is an important and timely collection that sheds new light on Freud’s Three Essays of Sexuality. This volume makes a vital contribution to contemporary discussions of sexuality and psychoanalysis." – Elissa Marder, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emory University, USA

Philippe Van Haute is professor of philosophical anthropology at Radboud University, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a practising psychoanalyst and was president of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis from 2006 to 2009. Herman Westerink is lecturer at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

• Introduction: excavating a theory of sexuality 1. Understanding Freud’s conflicted view of the object-relatedness of sexuality and its implications for contemporary psychoanalysis: a re-examination of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 2. Freud’s discussion with psychiatry on sexuality, drives and objects in Three Essays 3. The pre-Freudian modernization of sexuality: Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll 3. The mystery of the erased sentence in Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 5. Freud reads Krafft-Ebing: the case of sadism and masochism 6. Variations, components and accidents: critical reflections on Freud’s concept of the drive 7. Lacan meets Freud? Patho-analytic reflections on the status of the perversions in Lacanian metapsychology Epilogue: the Three Essays today

"Freud’s Three Essays is treated here as a palimpsest that contributors tease apart with forensic care. Van Haute and Westerink, masterminding a vital de-heterosexualizing of psychoanalysis, present a dramatically revised theory of sexuality. From Deconstructing Normativity? emerges a compelling picture of Freud as the original anti-Oedipus." - — Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author of Unlimited Intimacy"Deconstructing Normativity? is an important and timely collection that sheds new light on Freud’s Three Essays of Sexuality. This volume makes a vital contribution to contemporary discussions of sexuality and psychoanalysis." – Elissa Marder, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emory University, USA

Philippe Van Haute is professor of philosophical anthropology at Radboud University, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a practising psychoanalyst and was president of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis from 2006 to 2009. Herman Westerink is lecturer at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University, the Netherlands, and extraordinary professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

• Introduction: excavating a theory of sexuality 1. Understanding Freud’s conflicted view of the object-relatedness of sexuality and its implications for contemporary psychoanalysis: a re-examination of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 2. Freud’s discussion with psychiatry on sexuality, drives and objects in Three Essays 3. The pre-Freudian modernization of sexuality: Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll 3. The mystery of the erased sentence in Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 5. Freud reads Krafft-Ebing: the case of sadism and masochism 6. Variations, components and accidents: critical reflections on Freud’s concept of the drive 7. Lacan meets Freud? Patho-analytic reflections on the status of the perversions in Lacanian metapsychology Epilogue: the Three Essays today

"Freud’s Three Essays is treated here as a palimpsest that contributors tease apart with forensic care. Van Haute and Westerink, masterminding a vital de-heterosexualizing of psychoanalysis, present a dramatically revised theory of sexuality. From Deconstructing Normativity? emerges a compelling picture of Freud as the original anti-Oedipus." - — Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author of Unlimited Intimacy"Deconstructing Normativity? is an important and timely collection that sheds new light on Freud’s Three Essays of Sexuality. This volume makes a vital contribution to contemporary discussions of sexuality and psychoanalysis." – Elissa Marder, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emory University, USA