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Subject(s)

• Feminist psychology [Browse]
• Dualism [Browse]

Series

• Relational perspectives book series. [More in this series]
• Relational Perspectives Book Series

Summary note

"This book offers Dimen's classic take on psychosexuality, drawing on relational theory, feminism and postmodernism, with a new foreword by Virginia Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late Muriel Dimen and introducing a new audience to her profound legacy. For Dimen, the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines can also be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality. She urges us to return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud's writings, and to replace the determinism into which his thought has hardened with more fluid notions of contingency, paradox, and thirdness. By unveiling the colloquy among psychoanalysis, social theory, and feminism, Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender, eroticism, and perversion. She explores, among other topics, the relations between Lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian thought in theorizing homosexuality; the body as projective test; and the intimate tangle of love and hate between women. Generous clinical examples illustrate the ways in which a radical re-visioning of psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike. A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power covers both clinical insights and theoretical rethinking that is invaluable for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and students of women's, gender, and queer studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Prologue : a personal journey from dualism to Multiplicity
• The engagement between psychoanalysis and feminism : a report from the front
• The third step : Freud, the feminists, and postmodernism
• On "our nature" or sex and the single narrative
• The body as Rorschach
• Between lust and libido : sex, psychoanalysis and the moment before
• Deconstructing difference : gender, splitting and transitional space
• Power, sexuality, and intimacy
• In the zone of ambivalence : a feminist journal of competition
• Perversion is us? Eight notes
• Epilogue : some personal conclusions.

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ISBN

• 9781000994414
• 9781003454083

OCLC

1396082680

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