Gender in Psychoanalytic Space: Between Clinic and Culture

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"Here is a book that both creates and illuminates the space where psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, and sexualities join. . . . A collection of cutting edge work that brims with the excitement of new possibility." -Dr. Sam Gerson Combining clinical psychoanalysis with feminism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic theory, this pioneering collection represents a major step forward in psychoanalytic gender studies. Cover Contemporary Theory Series Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Muriel Dimen and Virginia Goldner I - A Moment of Theory: Gender Deconstructed 1 - Melancholy Gender-Refused Identification: Judith Butler 2 - The Mystery of Homosexuality: Ken Corbett 3 - Deconstructing Difference: Gender, Splitting, and Transitional Space: Muriel Dimen 4 - Toward a Critical Relational Theory of Gender: Virginia Goldner 5 - Gender as Contradiction: Adrienne Harris II - Critical Reconstructions: Identity and Multiplicity 6 - The Internalized Primal Scene: Lewis Aron 7 - Beyond the He and the She: Toward the Reconciliation of Masculinity and Femininity in the Postoedipal Female Mind: Donna Bassin 8 - Sameness and Difference: An “Overinclusive” View of Gender Constitution: Jessica Benjamin 9 - What Sex Is an Amaryllis? What Gender Is Lesbian?: Looking for Something to Hold It All: Maggie Magee and Diana C. Miller III - Between Clinic and Culture: Critical Elaborations 10 - Gender as a Personal and Cultural Construction: Nancy J. Chodorow 11 - “Being Elsewhere …”: Women and Psychoanalysis in the Contemporary Arab World: Lilia Labidi 12 - Gendered Subjects, Gendered Agents: Toward an Integration of Postmodern Theory and Relational Analytic Practice: Lynne Layton 13 - Race in Psychoanalytic Space: Kimberlyn Leary 14 - Linking the Psychological and the Social: Feminism, Poststructuralism, and Multiple Personality: Margo Rivera