Contents

Preface: Why We Need Madness

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mad for Foucault

Chapter 1. How We Became Queer

First Interlude: Nietzsche’s Dreadful Attendant

Chapter 2. Queer Moralities

Second Interlude: Wet Dreams

Chapter 3. Unraveling the Queer Psyche

Third Interlude: Of Meteors and Madness

Chapter 4. A Queer Nephew

Fourth Interlude: A Shameful Lyricism

Chapter 5. A Political Ethic of Eros

Postlude: A Fool’s Laughter

Notes

Works Cited

Index