From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis
From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis

Author: Esther Rapoport

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1000008126

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This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the challenges that can be presented by bisexual clients within a clinical setting. Examining bisexuality through the lenses of Lacanian, Winnicottian and Relational psychoanalytic theories, the book outlines the ways in which the concept is at once both dated and yet still tremendously important. It includes case studies to explore the issue of widespread countertransference responses in the clinical setting, in addition to using both bisexual theory and empirical research on biphobia to comment on the social pressures facing bisexual men and women, and the resultant psychological effects. Bisexual identities and practices have become increasingly visible in recent years, and this important book addresses the lack of critical reckoning with the topic within the psychoanalytic community. It will be of great interest to practicing psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well as to researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis and gender and sexuality studies.

From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis
From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis

Author: Esther Rapoport

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367227500

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This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the challenges that can be presented by bisexual clients within a clinical setting. Examining bisexuality through the lenses of Lacanian, Winnicottian and Relational psychoanalytic theories, the book outlines the ways in which the concept is at once both dated and yet still tremendously important. It includes case studies to explore the issue of widespread countertransference responses in the clinical setting, in addition to using both bisexual theory and empirical research on biphobia to comment on the social pressures facing bisexual men and women, and the resultant psychological effects. Bisexual identities and practices have become increasingly visible in recent years, and this important book addresses the lack of critical reckoning with the topic within the psychoanalytic community. It will be of great interest to practicing psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well as to researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis and gender and sexuality studies. c community. It will be of great interest to practicing psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well as to researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis and gender and sexuality studies.

Desiring in the Real
Desiring in the Real

Author: Esther Rapoport

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781782205111

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This book engages bisexuality as a concept relevant and even central to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. The author provides an overview of the origins of this concept in Freudian theory and analyzes the ways in which it has been used, theoretically and clinically, in recent decades. Bisexuality' s intersections with clinical and theoretical issues such as erotic transference/countertransference and Oedipus complex are explored, as are the types of pressures and anxieties experienced by bisexuals of different genders. The book's main purpose is to promote a shift away from a traditional psychoanalytic view of bisexuality as an undifferentiated, primitive state that belongs to the past, of both the individual and the species, and has to be given up as a condition for "real" adult sexuality - towards recognition of bisexuality as a form of desire and practice that is alive and present in individuals' lives and, as contemporary bisexual theory has demonstrated, has the power to transform many limiting notions about sexuality. The book aims, not only to promote a better understanding and greater acceptance of bisexual identities and practices among psychoanalytic clinicians, but also to shed light on some of psychoanalytic theory's foundational biases and help shift psychoanalytic thinking from monosexual to bisexual epistemology.

Psychic Bisexuality
Psychic Bisexuality

Author: Rosine Jozef Perelberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1351262947

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Winner of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Edited Book Prize for 2019! Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings. The book takes the Freudian project into new grounds of clinical practice and theoretical formulations and contributes to a profound psychoanalytic understanding of sexuality. The object of pychoanalysis is psychosexuality, which is not, in the final analysis, determined by having a male or a female body, but by the unconscious phantasies that are reached après coup through tracing the nuanced interplay of identifications as they are projected, enacted and experienced in the transference and the countertransference in the analytic encounter. Drawing on British and French Freudian and post-Freudian traditions, the book explores questions of love, transference and countertransference, sexual identity and gender to set out the latest clinical understanding of bisexuality, and includes chapters from influential French analysts available in English for the first time. Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars.

From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis
From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis

Author: George C. Abbott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the challenges that can be presented by bisexual clients within a clinical setting. Examining bisexuality through the lenses of Lacanian, Winnicottian and Relational psychoanalytic theories, the book outlines the ways in which the concept is at once both dated and yet still tremendously important. It includes case studies to explore the issue of widespread countertransference responses in the clinical setting, as well as using both bisexual theory and empirical research on biphobia to comment on the social pressures facing bisexual men and women, and the resultant psychological effects. Bisexual identities and practices have become increasingly visible in recent years, and this important book addresses the lack of critical reckoning with this topic within the psychoanalytic community. It will be of great interest to practicing psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as to researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis and gender & sexuality studies.

Bisexuality: A Critical Reader
Bisexuality: A Critical Reader

Author: Merl Storr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-03

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1134706901

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Bisexuality: A Critical Reader presents the essential primary texts on bisexuality from the last 100 years in an easy-to-read format. Exploring this often controversial concept from a range of perspectives, this book places bisexuality in its historical and cultural context and explores its many meanings and uses. Merl Storr's introductions give a straightforward overview of the texts included and sets them clearly in the context of debates on bisexuality. This collection includes pieces by: * Henry Havelock Ellis * Sigmund Freud * Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin * and Hélèn Cixous.

The Economics of Libido
The Economics of Libido

Author: Trevor C. Pederson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-29

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0429920539

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This book outlines three shibboleths of psychoanalysis: psychic bisexuality, the Oedipus complex, and social ontology. It affirms the centrality of the Oedipus complex and illustrates the characterological functioning of the pre-phallic superego.

Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality
Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality

Author: Robert Samuels

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780791436103

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Uses close readings of Hitchcock's films to combine an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics with a discussion of recent theories of feminine subjectivity and queer textuality.

In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch
In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch

Author: Mark Gerald

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-09

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 042955754X

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In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch: Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices uses text and images to form a complex portrait of psychoanalysis today. It is the culmination of the authors 15-year project of photographing psychoanalysts in their offices across 27 cities and ten countries. Part memoir, part history, part case study, and part self-analysis, these pages showcase a diversity of analysts: male and female and old-school and contemporary. Starting with Freud’s iconic office, the book explores how the growing diversity in both analysts and patient groups, and changes in schools of thought have been reflected in these intimate spaces, and how the choices analysts make in their office arrangements can have real effects on treatment. Along with the presentation of images, Mark Gerald explores the powerful relational foundations of theory and clinical technique, the mutually vulnerable patient-analyst connection, and the history of the psychoanalytic office. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as psychotherapists, counsellors, and social workers interested in understanding and innovating the spaces used for mental health treatment. It will also appeal to interior designers, office architects, photographers, and anyone who ever considered entering a psychoanalyst's office.

Bisexuality and Queer Theory
Bisexuality and Queer Theory

Author: Jonathan Alexander

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1317995554

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According to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a "crisis in contemporary sexual definition". What is sexuality? What does it mean to have a sexual identity or orientation? What is the relationship between sexuality as a knowledge construct, on one hand, and the often messy flows of desire and practices of love, on the other? How and why are some sexual, erotic, and intimate practices normalized and others marginalized? Queer Theory has emerged in the West as one of the most provocative analytical tools in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes identity and social structures that take heteronormativity for granted – that do not question the social construction of heterosexuality as normative in relation to its oppositional binary, homosexuality. At the same time, bisexuality is a practice, identity, and orientation that challenges the binary logic around which cultural notions of sexuality are organized. It is a portal to the imagination of a world of amorous expression beyond that divide. This provocative collection presents bisexuality and queer theory as two parallel thought collectives that have made significant contributions to cultural discourses about sexual and amorous practices since the onset of the AIDS era, and explores the ideas that circulate in these thought collectives today. We learn much about the construction and experience of sexuality, and the power it still holds throughout the contemporary Western world to shape identities and practices. This volume challenges our understanding of what it means to be sexual, to have a sexual identity, and to practise the arts of loving. This book was orginally published as a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.