Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 4

Expansion of Theory

Lewis Aron, Adrienne Harris, Lewis Aron, Adrienne Harris

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415888257
• eBook ISBN: 9781317722205
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris, and comprised of the contributions of many of the leading voices in the relational world, Volume 4 carries on the legacy of this rich and diversified psychoanalytic approach by taking a fresh look at recent developments in relational theory. Included here are chapters on sexuality and gender, race and class, identity and self, thirdness, the transitional subject, the body, and more. Thoughtful, capacious, and integrative, this new volume places the leading edge of relational thought close at hand, and pushes the boundaries of the relational turn that much closer to the horizon.

Contributors: Neil Altman, Jessica Benjamin, Emanuel Berman, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Susan Coates, Ken Corbett, Muriel Dimen, Martin Stephen Frommer, Jill Gentile, Samuel Gerson, Virginia Goldner, Sue Grand, Hazel Ipp, Kimberlyn Leary, Jonathan Slavin, Malcolm Owen Slavin, Charles Spezzano, Ruth Stein, Melanie Suchet.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Frontmatter 2
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Editors’ Introduction
• 1 Money, Love, and Hate: Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis—Muriel Dimen
• 2 Passing, Posing, and “Keeping It Real”—Kimberlyn Leary
• 3 The Innocence of Sexuality—Jonathan Slavin
• 4 Ironic Gender/Authentic Sex—Virginia Goldner
• 5 Beyond Doer and Done to: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness—Jessica Benjamin
• 6 John Bowlby and Margaret S. Mahler: Their Lives and Theories—Susan Coates
• 7 The Happy Prince, The Giving Tree: The Fantasy of Parenthood as Self-Annihilation and Its Relevance to Psychoanalytic Treatment—Emanuel Berman
• 8 Whiteness—Neil Altman
• 9 Unraveling Whiteness—Melanie Suchet
• 10 A Home for the Mind—Charles Spezzano
• 11 On the Subjectivity of Lustful States of Mind—Martin Stephen Frommer
• 12 Sacrificial Bodies: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Torture—Sue Grand
• 13 Between Private and Public: Toward a Conception of the Transitional Subject—Jill Gentile
• 14 Gender Now—Ken Corbett
• 15 The Otherness of Sexuality: Excess—Ruth Stein
• 16 When the Third Is Dead: Memory, Mourning, and Witnessing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust—Samuel Gerson
• 17 Revisiting “Mourning and Melancholia,” One More Time—Jeanne Wolff Bernstein
• 18 Lullaby on the Dark Side: Existential Anxiety, Making Meaning, and the Dialectics of Self and Other—Malcolm Owen Slavin
• Author Index
• Subject Index