Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis

by Benjamin,Jessica

• ISBN13: 9780415912365
• ISBN10: 0415912369
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135225032
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-03
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Shadow of the Otheris a discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an "other"--other individuals. The first regards the other as a s work apart is her brilliant utilization of a systematic dialectical approach to her subject, always maintaining the delicate balance between opposing tensions: masculinity and femininity, subjectivity and objectivity, passivity and activity, love and aggression, fantasy and reality, modernism and postmodernism, the intrapsychic and the intersubjective. Benjamin s work apart is her brilliant utilization of a systematic dialectical approach to her subject, always maintaining the delicate balance between opposing other as a mental repository fo unwanted characteristics cast from the self. Jessica benjamin shows the implications of this dual relationship for male/female hierarchy and offers a possibility for balancing the two. This book continues the author's well-known explorations of the themes of intersubjectivity andgender, taking up issues at the forefront of contemporary debates in feminist theory and psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Introduction	xi
1. The Primal Leap of Psychoanalysis, From Body to Speech Freud, Feminism, and the Vicissitudes of the Transference	1	(34)
2. "Constructions of Uncertain Content" Gender and Subjectivity beyond the Oedipal Complementarities	35	(44)
3. The Shadow of the Other Subject Intersubjectivity and Feminist Theory	79	(30)
References	109	(12)
Index	121