title: On situating homophobia.
abstract: Premised on the observation that the HIV epidemic has occasioned an increase in both the prevalence and the virulence of homophobic ideation, feeling, and action, this paper surveys some of the ways in which psychoanalytic theory has been widely used in the emerging extraclinical literature on this problem. The problem has been barely addressed in the clinical literature, however, a gap that is discussed. The paper then proceeds, by way of a clinical vignette and a critical examination of some central texts of Freud, to present a clinical/theoretical perspective on homophobia. This perspective leans on Brian Bird's work on prejudice.
authors.affiliation: Psychoanalytic Institute at New York University Medical Center, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moss
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005619:Freudian Theory; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012931:Social Environment