Sexuality, intimacy, and power / Muriel Dimen.

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Dimen, Muriel

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TextSeries: Relational perspectives book series ; v. 22.Publication details: Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 328 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781134908745
1134908741
1299699022
9781299699021
9780203780466
0203780469
9781134908813
1134908814
9781134908882
1134908881
1138005703
9781138005709

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexuality, intimacy, and power.DDC classification:

155.3 22

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BF201.4 .D556 2003eb

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2003 K-429
WM 460

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71.25

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Contents:

Prologue: A Personal Journey from Dualism to Multiplicity -- Sect. I. The Story So Far: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Politics -- Ch. 1. The Engagement Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Report from the Front -- Ch. 2. The Third Step: Freud, the Feminists, and Postmodernism -- Sect. II. Mind, Body, Culture: Psychoanalytic Studies -- Ch. 3. On "Our Nature," or Sex and the Single Narrative -- Ch. 4. The Body as Rorschach -- Ch. 5. Between Lust and Libido: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and the Moment Before -- Ch. 6. Deconstructing Difference: Gender, Splitting, and Transitional Space -- Sect. III. The Personal Is Political is Theoretical: A Sampler -- Ch. 7. Power, Sexuality, and Intimacy -- Ch. 8. In the Zone of Ambivalence: A Feminist Journal of Competition -- Ch. 9. Perversion Is Us? Eight Notes -- Epilogue: Some Personal Conclusions.

Summary: Can contemporary psychoanalysis tell us anything about sexuality that is new and clinically meaningful? It most certainly can, answers Muriel Dimen in Sexuality, Intimacy, Power, a compelling attempt to revivify Freud's core interest, in ""sexual impulses in the ordinary sense of the term."" But there is nothing ordinary about Dimen's project. Drawing on contemporary relational theory, feminism, and postmodernism, she takes a sustained, sometimes irreverent, look at assumptions about psychosexuality. For Dimen, the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of dis.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-316) and index.

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Can contemporary psychoanalysis tell us anything about sexuality that is new and clinically meaningful? It most certainly can, answers Muriel Dimen in Sexuality, Intimacy, Power, a compelling attempt to revivify Freud's core interest, in ""sexual impulses in the ordinary sense of the term."" But there is nothing ordinary about Dimen's project. Drawing on contemporary relational theory, feminism, and postmodernism, she takes a sustained, sometimes irreverent, look at assumptions about psychosexuality. For Dimen, the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of dis.

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