ABSTRACT

Building on the success and importance of three previous volumes, Relational Psychoanalysis continues to expand and develop the relational turn. Under the keen editorship of Lewis Aron and Adrienne Harris, and comprised of the contributions of many of the leading voices in the relational world, Volume 4 carries on the legacy of this rich and diversified psychoanalytic approach by taking a fresh look at recent developments in relational theory. Included here are chapters on sexuality and gender, race and class, identity and self, thirdness, the transitional subject, the body, and more. Thoughtful, capacious, and integrative, this new volume places the leading edge of relational thought close at hand, and pushes the boundaries of the relational turn that much closer to the horizon.

Contributors: Neil Altman, Jessica Benjamin, Emanuel Berman, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Susan Coates, Ken Corbett, Muriel Dimen, Martin Stephen Frommer, Jill Gentile, Samuel Gerson, Virginia Goldner, Sue Grand, Hazel Ipp, Kimberlyn Leary, Jonathan Slavin, Malcolm Owen Slavin, Charles Spezzano, Ruth Stein, Melanie Suchet.

chapter 1|29 pages

Money, Love, and Hate

Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis 1

chapter 3|23 pages

The Innocence of Sexuality 1

chapter 4|21 pages

Ironic Gender/Authentic Sex 1

chapter 5|40 pages

Beyond Doer and Done to

An Intersubjective View of Thirdness 1

chapter 6|27 pages

John Bowlby and Margaret S. Mahler

Their Lives and Theories 1

chapter 7|17 pages

The Happy Prince, The Giving Tree

The Fantasy of Parenthood as Self-Annihilation and Its Relevance to Psychoanalytic Treatment 1

chapter 8|22 pages

Whiteness 1

chapter 9|22 pages

Unraveling Whiteness 1

chapter 10|15 pages

A Home for the Mind*

chapter 12|17 pages

Sacrificial Bodies

Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Torture 1

chapter 13|22 pages

Between Private and Public

Toward a Conception of the Transitional Subject*

chapter 14|17 pages

Gender Now 1

chapter 15|26 pages

The Otherness of Sexuality

Excess 1

chapter 16|20 pages

When the Third Is Dead

Memory, Mourning, and Witnessing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust*

chapter 18|23 pages

Lullaby on the Dark Side

Existential Anxiety, Making Meaning, and the Dialectics of Self and Other 1