Sexuality, Intimacy, Power

Classic Edition
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-59302-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Relational Perspectives Book Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimen, Muriel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements  Foreword  Prologue: A Personal Journey from Dualism to Multipliicity  Part 1: The Story So Far: Psychoanalysts, Feminism and Politics  1. The Engagement Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Report from the Front  2. The Third Step: Freud, the Feminists, and Postmodernism  Part 2: Mind, Body, Culture: Psychoanalytic Studies  3. On "Our Nature" or Sex and the Single Narrative  4. The Body as Rorschach  5. Between Lust and Libido: Sex, Psychoanalysis and the Moment Before  6. Deconstructing Difference: Gender, Splitting and Transitional Space  Part 3: The Personal Is Political Is Theoretical: A Sampler  7. Power, Sexuality, and Intimacy  8. In the Zone of Ambivalence: A Feminist Journal of Competition  9. Perversion Is Us? Eight Notes  Epilogue: Some Personal Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Muriel Dimen was Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at New York University, an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and an Executive Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality.