In this important book, the author of The Bonds of Love discusses gender issues from the perspective of developmental psychoanalysis. Jessica Benjamin, a well-known psychoanalyst and feminist, makes a case for what she calls "gender heterodoxy"―a highly original view of the similarities and differences between the sexes―and in the process she illuminates aspects of love, sexuality, aggression, and pornography. Benjamin elaborates and develops the psychoanalytic theory of intersubjectivity, taking up the question: What difference does it make when I consider the Other to be not merely an object of my mind but a subject in his or her own right, with a center of being equivalent to my own? This question of recognition is closely related to how we frame, tolerate, and theorize difference and is therefore tied to the issue of gender. Benjamin argues that intersubjective theory does not replace but rather adds to the existing intrapsychic theory of psychoanalysis, which focuses on the individual. Her both/and (as opposed to either/or) approach is carried throughout the book, for Benjamin brilliantly integrates relational and Freudian positions, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, and clinical and theoretical information.

Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Benjamin, Jessica

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

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THE BONDS OF LOVE

Self-Help

Relationships

Pantheon

Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate the positions of master and slave? In The Bonds of Love, noted feminist theorist and psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin explains why we accept and perpetuate relationships of domination and submission. She reveals that domination is a complex psychological process which ensnares both parties in bonds of complicity, and shows how it underlies our family life, our social institutions, and especially our sexual relations, in spite of our conscious commitment to equality and freedom.

The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domincation

Shadow of the Other

Shadow of the Other is a discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an "other"--other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one which is still recognizable. The second understands and recognizes this other by its function as a repository of characteristics cast from oneself.   In recognizing how this dual relationship is reconciled within the self, and its implications in male/female relations, Jessica Benjamin continues her exploration of intersubjectivity and gender, taking up questions of contemporary debates in feminist theory and psychoanalysis.

Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis

Mental Health

Routledge

Shadow of the Other is a discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an "other"--other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one which is still recognizable. The second understands and recognizes this other by its function as a repository of characteristics cast from oneself. In recognizing how this dual relationship is reconciled within the self, and its implications in male/female relations, Jessica Benjamin continues her exploration of intersubjectivity and gender, taking up questions of contemporary debates in feminist theory and psychoanalysis.

Beyond Doer and Done to

In Beyond Doer and Done To, Jessica Benjamin, author of the path-breaking Bonds of Love, expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of "doer and done to." Her innovative theory charts the growth of the Third in early development through the movement between recognition and breakdown, and shows how it parallels the enactments in the psychoanalytic relationship. Benjamin’s recognition theory illuminates the radical potential of acknowledgment in healing both individual and social trauma, in creating relational repair in the transformational space of thirdness. Benjamin’s unique formulations of intersubjectivity make essential reading for both psychoanalytic therapists and theorists in the humanities and social sciences.

Beyond Doer and Done to: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third

In Beyond Doer and Done To, Jessica Benjamin, author of the path-breaking Bonds of Love, expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of "doer and done to." Her innovative theory charts the growth of the Third in early development through the movement between recognition and breakdown, and shows how it parallels the enactments in the psychoanalytic relationship. Benjamin’s recognition theory illuminates the radical potential of acknowledgment in healing both individual and social trauma, in creating relational repair in the transformational space of thirdness. Benjamin’s unique formulations of intersubjectivity make essential reading for both psychoanalytic therapists and theorists in the humanities and social sciences.

In "Die Fesseln der Liebe" zeigt die New Yorker Psychoanalytikerin, warum wir Unterwerfungsverhaltnisse annehmen und oft sogar noch selbst vertiefen. Sie beschreibt den komplexen psychischen Prozess, der beide Seiten in Fesseln schlagt und zu Komplizen macht. Die Autorin spurt diese Strukturen in unserem Familienleben auf, in gesellschaftlichen Institutionen, vor allem in unseren sexuellen Beziehungen - entgegen bewusstem Engagement fur Gleichheit und Freiheit. "Die Fesseln der Liebe" ist ein wesentlicher Beitrag zu zeitgenossischem gesellschaftlichen Denken. Unter Einbeziehung klinischer Erfahrungen und neuerer psychologischer Forschungen bietet Jessica Benjamin einen entscheidenden Neu-Ansatz fur die Psychoanalyse und ihre Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Unbehagen in der Kultur. "Brillante Studie uber Liebe und Herrschaft." Suddeutsche Zeitung "Die Fesseln der Liebe" ist ein komplexes, theoretisches, in seiner analytischen Form grundlich durchwebtes Buch, das kein psychologischer Ratgeber ist, sondern eine Erklarungsleistung von grosser Brillanz." taz "Jessica Benjamin akzeptiert nicht die feministische Unterdruckungs-These, sondern spurt der Frage nach, warum Frauen ihre Unterwerfung lustvoll begehren konnen." DER SPIEGEL

Die Fesseln Der Liebe: Psychoanalyse, Feminismus Und Das Problem Der Macht (Klostermann/Nexus) (German Edition)

Verlag Vittorio Klosterman

Phantasie und Geschlecht.

Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt

Der Schatten des Anderen.

Stroemfeld Verlag

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