Dianne Elise
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1718862 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dianne Elise |
| NOMBRES | Dianne |
| APELLIDO | Elise |
| FIRMA | ELISE D |
| AFILIACIONES | Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1659-6908 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Solace
In this essay, I explore the relationship between solace and lament, noting a paradox regarding which comes first. I suggest that solace is a prerequisite for a capacity to lament. I develop a conceptualization of the solacing function of the analyst as an active, yet gentle, approach toward a patient that can locate unrepresented experiences of loss in order to stimulate lament and a process of mourning. Grievance, as a protracted state, is desc…
Analytic Eroticism
The Sounds of Silence
This paper engages a Winnicottian formulation of the analytic field to highlight the often unspoken, implicit erotic dimensions of analytic work. Material from an analysis with a very inhibited, emotionally constricted man shows both patient and analyst encountering difficulty in “locating” each other within the analytic field. Paradoxically, a felt sense of connection was also palpable, and possibly/impossibly erotic. Movement in the treatment r…
Moving from Within The Maternal
With Kristeva’s concept of maternal eroticism (2014) as starting point, the “multiverse” of mother/child erotic sensibilities—the dance of the semiotic chora—is explored and a parallel engagement proposed within the analytic dyad. The dance of psychoanalysis is not the creative product of the patient’s mind alone. Clinical work invites, requires, a choreographic engagement by the clinician in interplay with the patient. The clinician’s analytic a…
The Danger in Deception
Certain potential precursors to heterosexual women’s experience of partner infidelity are explored as these dynamics unfold within the oedipal crisis—the “betrayal” by the oedipal objects. As each child moves into the oedipal phase, he or she comes to recognize not only desire for the mother, but the mother’s desire for the father. A doubling of this experience of “deception,” encountered first in relation to the mother, and then repeated with th…
Sex and Shame
A developmental narrative is presented that centers on bodily based narcissistic injury and sense of shame in response to unrequited oedipal longings. Through an experience of oedipal defeat in relation to both mother and father, a female sense of inadequacy and shame may be internalized and accepted as one's identity, in contrast to the male phallic-omnipotent trajectory. The demise of genital narcissism in females can underlie various expressio…
Blocked Creativity and Inhibited Erotic Transference
In this paper, I pursue the relationship between erotic transference and creativity. Erotic transference is not solely a resistance to treatment; treatment can involve a resistance to erotic transference, the dynamics of which can have parallels in the inhibition of creativity. Although it is certainly true that erotic transferences may be defensive against other layers of material, there has been a virtual neglect of the deleterious impact of re…
Generating Gender
Bye-Bye” to Bisexuality? Response to Lynne Layton
Woman and Desire Why Women MayNotWant to Want
Questioning why it is that female genitalia and desire are viewed in psychoanalytic theory as hidden, inaccessible, and lacking, the author examines 1) female genital representation, 2) girls' erotically desirous relationships to their mothers, and 3) the nature of women's experience in sexuality. The author proposes that the marker “absent” regarding female genitalia and desire may be a particular female form or protection against “castration” o…
The Absence of the Paternal Penis
Girls' experiences of object loss, in conjunction with female anatomical structure, may lend themselves to a particular genital anxiety regarding openness and emptiness. The relational void in giving up the mother as love object may lead to an internal self-representation of a “hole” to be filled, much as the mouth sucks the pacifier in the absence of the nipple. This image may then be extended to the genital representation. In turning to the fat…
Primary Femininity, Bisexuality, and the Female Ego Ideal
While the concept of primary femininity advances our understanding of the girl's developmental experience, a number of contradictions and problematic assumptions are at the present time contained within this concept. I propose that we use the phrase "primary sense of femaleness" to refer to the girl's earliest sense of self deriving from the mental representation of her body. In addition, I argue that the concepts of a primary sense of femaleness…
Primary Femininity, Bisexuality, and the Female Ego Ideal
While the concept of primary femininity advances our understanding of the girl's developmental experience, a number of contradictions and problematic assumptions are at the present time contained within this concept. I propose that we use the phrase "primary sense of femaleness" to refer to the girl's earliest sense of self deriving from the mental representation of her body. In addition, I argue that the concepts of a primary sense of femaleness…
Sex and Shame
A developmental narrative is presented that centers on bodily based narcissistic injury and sense of shame in response to unrequited oedipal longings. Through an experience of oedipal defeat in relation to both mother and father, a female sense of inadequacy and shame may be internalized and accepted as one's identity, in contrast to the male phallic-omnipotent trajectory. The demise of genital narcissism in females can underlie various expressio…
Woman and Desire Why Women MayNotWant to Want
Questioning why it is that female genitalia and desire are viewed in psychoanalytic theory as hidden, inaccessible, and lacking, the author examines 1) female genital representation, 2) girls' erotically desirous relationships to their mothers, and 3) the nature of women's experience in sexuality. The author proposes that the marker “absent” regarding female genitalia and desire may be a particular female form or protection against “castration” o…
Moving from Within The Maternal
With Kristeva’s concept of maternal eroticism (2014) as starting point, the “multiverse” of mother/child erotic sensibilities—the dance of the semiotic chora—is explored and a parallel engagement proposed within the analytic dyad. The dance of psychoanalysis is not the creative product of the patient’s mind alone. Clinical work invites, requires, a choreographic engagement by the clinician in interplay with the patient. The clinician’s analytic a…
The Absence of the Paternal Penis
Girls' experiences of object loss, in conjunction with female anatomical structure, may lend themselves to a particular genital anxiety regarding openness and emptiness. The relational void in giving up the mother as love object may lead to an internal self-representation of a “hole” to be filled, much as the mouth sucks the pacifier in the absence of the nipple. This image may then be extended to the genital representation. In turning to the fat…
Blocked Creativity and Inhibited Erotic Transference
In this paper, I pursue the relationship between erotic transference and creativity. Erotic transference is not solely a resistance to treatment; treatment can involve a resistance to erotic transference, the dynamics of which can have parallels in the inhibition of creativity. Although it is certainly true that erotic transferences may be defensive against other layers of material, there has been a virtual neglect of the deleterious impact of re…
The Danger in Deception
Certain potential precursors to heterosexual women’s experience of partner infidelity are explored as these dynamics unfold within the oedipal crisis—the “betrayal” by the oedipal objects. As each child moves into the oedipal phase, he or she comes to recognize not only desire for the mother, but the mother’s desire for the father. A doubling of this experience of “deception,” encountered first in relation to the mother, and then repeated with th…
Analytic Eroticism
Primary Femininity, Bisexuality, and the Female Ego Ideal
While the concept of primary femininity advances our understanding of the girl's developmental experience, a number of contradictions and problematic assumptions are at the present time contained within this concept. I propose that we use the phrase "primary sense of femaleness" to refer to the girl's earliest sense of self deriving from the mental representation of her body. In addition, I argue that the concepts of a primary sense of femaleness…
The Absence of the Paternal Penis
Girls' experiences of object loss, in conjunction with female anatomical structure, may lend themselves to a particular genital anxiety regarding openness and emptiness. The relational void in giving up the mother as love object may lead to an internal self-representation of a “hole” to be filled, much as the mouth sucks the pacifier in the absence of the nipple. This image may then be extended to the genital representation. In turning to the fat…
Generating Gender
Bye-Bye” to Bisexuality? Response to Lynne Layton
Woman and Desire Why Women MayNotWant to Want
Questioning why it is that female genitalia and desire are viewed in psychoanalytic theory as hidden, inaccessible, and lacking, the author examines 1) female genital representation, 2) girls' erotically desirous relationships to their mothers, and 3) the nature of women's experience in sexuality. The author proposes that the marker “absent” regarding female genitalia and desire may be a particular female form or protection against “castration” o…
Blocked Creativity and Inhibited Erotic Transference
In this paper, I pursue the relationship between erotic transference and creativity. Erotic transference is not solely a resistance to treatment; treatment can involve a resistance to erotic transference, the dynamics of which can have parallels in the inhibition of creativity. Although it is certainly true that erotic transferences may be defensive against other layers of material, there has been a virtual neglect of the deleterious impact of re…
Sex and Shame
A developmental narrative is presented that centers on bodily based narcissistic injury and sense of shame in response to unrequited oedipal longings. Through an experience of oedipal defeat in relation to both mother and father, a female sense of inadequacy and shame may be internalized and accepted as one's identity, in contrast to the male phallic-omnipotent trajectory. The demise of genital narcissism in females can underlie various expressio…
The Danger in Deception
Certain potential precursors to heterosexual women’s experience of partner infidelity are explored as these dynamics unfold within the oedipal crisis—the “betrayal” by the oedipal objects. As each child moves into the oedipal phase, he or she comes to recognize not only desire for the mother, but the mother’s desire for the father. A doubling of this experience of “deception,” encountered first in relation to the mother, and then repeated with th…
Moving from Within The Maternal
With Kristeva’s concept of maternal eroticism (2014) as starting point, the “multiverse” of mother/child erotic sensibilities—the dance of the semiotic chora—is explored and a parallel engagement proposed within the analytic dyad. The dance of psychoanalysis is not the creative product of the patient’s mind alone. Clinical work invites, requires, a choreographic engagement by the clinician in interplay with the patient. The clinician’s analytic a…
Analytic Eroticism
The Sounds of Silence
This paper engages a Winnicottian formulation of the analytic field to highlight the often unspoken, implicit erotic dimensions of analytic work. Material from an analysis with a very inhibited, emotionally constricted man shows both patient and analyst encountering difficulty in “locating” each other within the analytic field. Paradoxically, a felt sense of connection was also palpable, and possibly/impossibly erotic. Movement in the treatment r…
Solace
In this essay, I explore the relationship between solace and lament, noting a paradox regarding which comes first. I suggest that solace is a prerequisite for a capacity to lament. I develop a conceptualization of the solacing function of the analyst as an active, yet gentle, approach toward a patient that can locate unrepresented experiences of loss in order to stimulate lament and a process of mourning. Grievance, as a protracted state, is desc…
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