Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Relational Perspectives Book

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Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Relational Perspectives Book Series)

Can contemporary psychoanalysis tell us anything about sexuality that is new and clinically meaningful?Â 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.Â Drawing on contemporary relational theory, feminism, and postmodernism, she takes a sustained, sometimes irreverent, look at assumptions about psychosexuality.Â For Dimen, the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines can also be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality.Â She urges us to return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud's writings, and to replace the determinism into which his thought has hardened with more fluid notions of contingency, paradox, and thirdness.
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By unveiling the colloquy among psychoanalysis, social theory, and feminism, Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender, eroticism, and perversion. She explores, among other topics, the relations between Lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian thought in theorizing homosexuality; the body as projective test; and the intimate tangle of love and hate between women. Generous clinical examples illustrate the ways in which a radical re-visioning of psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike.
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Mixing medium and message, Dimen draws on a variety of disciplines and styles to delineate the ambiguities, contradictions, and paradoxes that subtend sexuality in all its personal and clinical complexity.Â A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power is equally a historical document that will intrigue and enlighten students of women's, gender, and queer studies.

Country	USA
Author	Muriel Dimen
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Dimen, Muriel
EAN	9781138005709
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	1138005703
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Routledge
Manufacturer	Routledge
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2014-09-13
Publisher	Routledge
ReleaseDate	2014-09-12
Studio	Routledge

Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Relational Perspectives Book Series)

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