Authors: Jessic Benjamin
ISBN-13: 9780415912372, ISBN-10: 0415912377
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Jessica Benjamin is a psychoanalyst in New York City, where she is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Bonds of Love (1988) and Like Objects, Love Objects (1995).
Shadow of the Other is a discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an "other"other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one which is still recognizable. The second understands and recognizes this other by its function as a repository of characteristics cast from oneself.
In recognizing how this dual relationship is reconciled within the self, and its implications in male/female relations, Jessica Benjamin continues her exploration of intersubjectivity and gender, taking up questions of contemporary debates in feminist theory and psychoanalysis.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | The Primal Leap of Psychoanalysis, From Body to Speech: Freud, Feminism, and the Vicissitudes of the Transference | 1 |
2 | "Constructions of Uncertain Content": Gender and Subjectivity beyond the Oedipal Complementarities | 35 |
3 | The Shadow of the Other Subject: Intersubjectivity and Feminist Theory | 79 |
References | 109 | |
Index | 121 |