Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen

Experiments in Theorizing a Field

Stephen Hartman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000835601
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field is a collection of reading and writing experiments inspired by the late feminist psychoanalyst Muriel Dimen.

Each of the six projects that comprise this volume explores a stylistic and thematic manner of reading and responding to Dimen's work, challenging the field to write outside the standardized edition, and covering a remarkable breadth of essential analytic topics, such as sex, gender, money, love and hate, and boundary violations. As an homage to Dimen's quest to engage the personal and the political in the author's craft, and in collaboration with Dimen's endeavour to foster revolution across the psychosocial landscape that renders psychoanalysis its field, the authors offer readers a wild analysis of reading and writing.

Providing a clear introduction to and exploration of Muriel Dimen's groundbreaking work, this book will prove essential for scholars of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and gender studies, as well as anyone seeking to understand Dimen's influence on psychoanalytic practice today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Credits List
• Foreword by Virginia Goldner
• Among Us: Reading and Writing with Muriel Dimen
• 1 Politically Correct/Politically Incorrect—Redux and Revise
• 2 On Money, Love, and Hate
• 3 Talking About Sexuality and Suffering or the Eew! Factor: What’s a Nice Vanilla Analyst to Do?
• 4 Wild Times/Wild Analysis/Wild Revolution
• 5 Rotten Apples – Talking About It/Them/Us 203
• 6 Of Ghosts and Groups
• Afterword
• Index