Beyond doer and done to : recognition theory, intersubjectivity and the third / Jessica Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjamin, Jessica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recognition (Psychology).

Intersubjectivity--Psychological aspects.

Intersubjectivity.

Interpersonal relations.

Psychoanalysis and feminism.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 278 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Beyond doer and done to: an intersubjective view of thirdness 21

2 Our appointment in Thebes: acknowledgment, the failed witness and fear of harming 49

3 Transformations in thirdness: mutual recognition, vulnerability and asymmetry 71

I You've come a long way baby 72

II Responsibility, vulnerability and the analyst's surrender to change 90

4 An Other take on the riddle of sex: excess, affect and gender complementarity 111

5 Paradox and play: the uses of enactment 143

I The paradox is the thing 143

II Enactment, play and the work 154

III Putting music and lyrics together 169

6 Playing at the edge: negation, recognition and the lawful world 181

I Beginning with No ... and Yes 182

II Trauma, violence and recognition of the Other (Me) 199

7 Beyond "Only one can live": witnessing, acknowledgment and the moral Third 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138218413

1138218413

9781138218420

1138218421

OCLC:

962323408

Publisher Number:

40027329114