Psychic Bisexuality

A British-French Dialogue
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-57903-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

Reihe: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

Winner of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Edited Book Prize for 2019!

Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings.

The book takes the Freudian project into new grounds of clinical practice and theoretical formulations and contributes to a profound psychoanalytic understanding of sexuality. The object of pychoanalysis is psychosexuality, which is not, in the final analysis, determined by having a male or a female body, but by the unconscious phantasies that are reached après coup through tracing the nuanced interplay of identifications as they are projected, enacted and experienced in the transference and the countertransference in the analytic encounter.

Drawing on British and French Freudian and post-Freudian traditions, the book explores questions of love, transference and countertransference, sexual identity and gender to set out the latest clinical understanding of bisexuality, and includes chapters from influential French analysts available in English for the first time. Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perelberg, Rosine Jozef

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: a psychoanalytic understanding of bisexuality Rosine Jozef Perelberg 1. The beautiful differences
Christian David 2. Tell me whom you like best Catherine Chabert 3. The origin of psychoanalysis between bisexuality and transference Monique Cournut-Janin 4. Love and melancholia in the analysis of women by women Rosine Jozef Perelberg 5. From bisexuality to the feminine Jacqueline Godfrind 6. On bisexuality: being born with two eyes Marilia Aisenstein 7. Stumbling blocks of the feminine, stumbling blocks of psychic bisexuality
Nathalie Zilkha 8. Unconscious pacts and the bisexuality of the countertransference in the treatment
Denis Hirsch 9. "No sex, please, we’re British": some reflections on bisexuality in contemporary clinical theory
Rosemary Davies 10. How to be both, by not being both: the articulation of psychic bisexuality within the analytic session Rachel Chaplin 11. Alienating identifications and sexuality Donald Campbell 12. The neuter gender
André Green 13. Bye-bye, sexuality Gregorio Kohon Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Rosine Jozef Perelberg is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London and Corresponding Member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. Her books include Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide and Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women (with Joan Raphael-Leff). She is the author of Time, Space and Phantasy and Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex. In 2007, she was named one of the ten women of the year by the Brazilian National Council of Women.