Sitegeist - Number 1 (Spring 2008) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

There is a well-known Chinese curse, 'May you live in interesting times'. We cannot choose the time of life nor the prevailing spirit that governs it, but we are able to engage with the Zeitgeist of our times and in small ways, we can influence it. Sitegeist has emerged from The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis - a ten-year-old psychoanalytic organisation with a track record of commitment to exploring the extended field of psychoanalytic thinking and engaging with the traditions of European thought.

Notwithstanding its peer-reviewed credentials the journal will make every effort to be inclusive. Whilst we publish established authors and practitioners, we will also make every effort to encourage new writers and contributions from clinicians who might not have published already.

The Journal thus:

1 Promotes the field and function of the Site.
2 Clarifies the Site's project in the field of psychoanalysis.
3 Provides a space for the development of psychoanalytic theory
4 Contributes to the debate between psychoanalysis and contemporary thought.
5 Provides a space for the articulation of theory and the clinic.

Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of psychoanalysis, engaging with both the theoretical and the clinical and providing a lively contemporary discourse.

Issue contents: Editorial: Philip Derbyshire, Stephen Gee, Kirsty Hall, Peter Wood; Homosexuality: Why Psychoanalysis?: Stephen Gee; The Privacy of the Bedroom? Fifty Years on from The Wolfenden Report Reforms: Joanna Ryan; Homophobia is the Patient: Mary Lynne Ellis; How Not to be a Happy Homosexual: Peter Nevins; Insult and Identity: Fedja Dalagija; Interpellation and Intensity: Thinking Homosexuality with Psychoanalysis: Philip Derbyshire; Reviews; Call for Papers; Notes for Contributors