Full Description
This anthology of interviews and essays joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of feminism to provide a timely analysis of the crushing effects of patriarchy and the role that psychoanalysis can play in moving us into a future defined by mutuality and respect.
Departing from the contemporary psychoanalytic view that the socio-political and intrapsychic are inextricably linked, contributors use psychoanalysis as a tool to demystify and even dismantle patriarchy, while also examining how our theories, practices, and institutions have been implicated in it. The issues under examination here include important and often under-theorized topics such as institutional responses to boundary violations, the search for a black-feminist psychoanalytic theory, patriarchal enactments within the trans community, the persistence of patriarchy within contemporary psychoanalysis, and the impacts of patriarchy on diverse patient populations and ways to address this clinically.
This book represents the first anthology comprised of voices from both within and outside the psychoanalytic realm, outlining a contemporary feminist psychoanalysis for both an analytic and non-analytic audience. It is invaluable for both psychoanalysts and for those in gender studies wishing to draw on psychoanalytic thinking.
Contents
Introduction Part One: Learning from Activists: Engaging with and Resisting Patriarchal Constraint 1. Interview with Gloria Steinem 2. Interview with Carol Gilligan, Carol Jenkins, Emily Mann, and V, formerly known as Eve Ensler Part Two: On the Couch and in the Institute: How Patriarchy Impacts Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Structure 3. Patriarchy in Psychoanalytic Theory and Organizations: The Oedipus Complex as Ideology 4. Outlining the Psychoanalytic "Playbook" toward a Transgressive Collective Response-Ability 5. Confusion of Wills Between the Teacher and the Student: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Persistence of Gendered Abuses of Power in Psychoanalysis 6. On Psychoanalysis's Invention of Patriarchy and the Democratic Significance of Anatomical Difference 7. Maternally Speaking: Mothers, Daughters, and the Talking Cure 8. In Search of our Mother's Couch: Toward a Genealogy of Black Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory 9. Unmasking Psychoanalysis: The Emperor, The Boy, and the Search for New Clothes 10. Psychoanalysis in a Radically Changing World: How Do We Stand? Part Three: Psychoanalysis and Its Liberating Potential: A Clinical Perspective 11. Identity Searches and the Body 12. Patriarchy, Splitting, and Hunger for the Other 13. Working with Patriarchal Countertransference 14. Don't Take Up Space: How the Patriarchy Works to Undermine Trans Communities from Within 15. "Nasty Women" - Mobilizing Female Aggression to Potentiate Women and Silence the Patriarchy Part Four: Conclusion 16. Studies in Patriarchy: Intelligibility, Recognition and Psychoanalysis's Category Trouble
