A growing literature is being produced at the intersection of three consequential discourses of the late 20th century: psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism. In Disorienting Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Reappraisals of Sexual Identities these discourses are put in the service of reevaluation of lesbian and gay identities, and the result is a thoughtful and challenging anthology of essays. Thomas Domenici and Ronnie C. Lesser (both founding members of the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Concerns of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis) have edited a volume that will be central to the emerging literature on sexual orthodoxy and homosexuality in psychoanalysis.

The essays included in this collection originated in a conference held in 1993 at New York University, “Perspectives on