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Like Subjects, Love Objects / Edmund Burke; David Bromwich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burke, Edmund, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Object relations (Psychoanalysis).
- Sex differences (Psychology).
- Psychoanalysis and feminism.
- Family Relations.
- Psychological Theory.
- Identification, Psychological.
- Psychosexual Development.
- Epidemiologic Factors.
- Communications Media.
- Public Health.
- Personality Development.
- Family.
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
- Defense Mechanisms.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Information Science.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Personality.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Psychology, Social.
- Psychiatry and Psychology.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Gender Identity.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Sex Factors.
- Object Attachment.
- Erotica.
- Parent-Child Relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Family Relations.
- Psychological Theory.
- Identification, Psychological.
- Psychosexual Development.
- Epidemiologic Factors.
- Communications Media.
- Public Health.
- Personality Development.
- Family.
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
- Defense Mechanisms.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Information Science.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Personality.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Psychology, Social.
- Psychiatry and Psychology.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Gender Identity.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Sex Factors.
- Object Attachment.
- Erotica.
- Parent-Child Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1995]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this important book, the author of The Bonds of Love discusses gender issues from the perspective of developmental psychoanalysis. Jessica Benjamin, a well-known psychoanalyst and feminist, makes a case for what she calls "gender heterodoxy"-a highly original view of the similarities and differences between the sexes-and in the process she illuminates aspects of love, sexuality, aggression, and pornography.Benjamin elaborates and develops the psychoanalytic theory of intersubjectivity, taking up the question: What difference does it make when I consider the Other to be not merely an object of my mind but a subject in his or her own right, with a center of being equivalent to my own? This question of recognition is closely related to how we frame, tolerate, and theorize difference and is therefore tied to the issue of gender. Benjamin argues that intersubjective theory does not replace but rather adds to the existing intrapsychic theory of psychoanalysis, which focuses on the individual. Her both/and (as opposed to either/or) approach is carried throughout the book, for Benjamin brilliantly integrates relational and Freudian positions, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, and clinical and theoretical information.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Recognition and Destruction: An Outline of Intersubjectivity
- 2. Sameness and Difference: An "Overinclusive" View of Gender Constitution
- 3. The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study of Fantasy and Reality
- 4. Father and Daughter, Identification with Difference: A Contribution to Gender Heterodoxy
- 5. What Angel Would Hear Me? The Erotics of Transference
- 6. Sympathy for the Devil: Notes on Sexuality and Aggression, with Special Reference to Pornography
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780300156829
- 0300156820
- OCLC:
- 1023975078
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