Adrienne Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrienne Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0896-2277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Après Coup of “You Must Remember This”
With the republication of Adrienne Harris’ classic essay, “You must remember this” (Harris, 2009), Psychoanalytic Dialogues continues our new feature, Après Coup. By putting a paper from the early years of the journal in conversation with contemporary readers and writers, we hope to dive into the ways in which psychoanalysts forge relationality in spaces of complexity and contradiction over time, as our experiences- collective, dyadic, or solitar…
Remembering Jeremy Safran: Continuing the conversation
The war in Ukraine: Commentary on Romanov and Fonda
Introduction: Concluding the japa series on winnicott’s collected works
Encountering Shame with Stamina in Clinical Work with Race and Racism
In this discussion, I concentrate on Levine’s engagement with the problem of race and racism as it inhabits and grows and complicates clinical treatments with people different from the analyst in matters of race and class and caste. There are radical and painful differences between analyst and analysand, differences that are emotional, social, financial, and professional. Levine’s agenda is to open the painful and often humiliating places of diff…
Transgender and Analytic Countertransference
Using theory from philosophy and from race studies, the author explores the countertransference confusions and enactments that can arise in working with trans and gender nonbinary patients. Case material is presented to explore in vivo the potential for enactments and toxic anxiety in the analyst in work with patients exploring or inhabiting new forms of desire and identity. Primitive states of anxiety and dysphoria may inhibit the analyst's capa…
E nactment and A ffect I ntegration: B romberg’s P articular C linical S kill
This essay draws on a clinical vignette reproduced from a treatment with Philip Bromberg and carried into my clinical work, illuminating his creative use of enactment. The ongoing vitality of his insight carried over three decades and two analytic engagements
Introduction: Winnicott’s Collected Works, Volume 9
Introduction: Winnicott’s Collected Works, Volume 11
Introduction: Winnicott’s Collected Works, Volume 10
Introduction: Winnicott’s Collected Works, Volume 8
Working in the shadow of Covid-19
A theoretical exploration of current working conditions in the context of the pandemic is explored. Seeing the experience of many patients and analysts as a form of apres-coup, that is, a trauma in the present opening earlier trauma. Clinical examples are discussed
Clinical Life in the Context of the Pandemic
Introduction: Winnicott’s Collected Works, Volume 7
Introduction: Winnicott’S Collected Works, Volume 6
Introduction: Winnicott’s Collected Works, Volume 4
Introduction: Winnicott’s Collected Works, Volume 5
Prana
Afterword
Discussion of “Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment”
This discussion focuses on review of writing about phantom penis and phantom limb, considering how these data and research address the question of pleasure and sexuality in trans and gender-nonbinary persons. Implications of this work on phantom penis and prosthetic penis forms for thinking of brain structure, embodiment, and fantasy as sexuality are shaped and expressed in many different kinds of persons
Introduction: Winnicott’s Collected Works, Part I
Commentary on Abbasi
Commentary on González
Roy Schafer, 1922–2018
The Perverse Pact: Racism and White Privilege
The Perverse Pact: Racism and White Privilege Adrienne Harris (bio) Introduction This essay takes up, from a psychoanalytic and cultural theory perspective, the underpinnings and psychic structures of racism, as it is lived out and practiced in the North American context. Considering the investment of white people in many projects of denial and historical amnesia, this is the most daunting task facing communities, large and small. This essay, whi…
Gender as a Sort Assembly Tomboys' Stories
This article draws on a study of tomboys to reflect on developmental theory in psychoanalysis. To illuminate the power of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamic systems theory in understanding gender and sexuality, I trace three lines of theoretical work on gender, relevant to conceptualizing tomboy love and tomboy identity. First, I reexamine the work on gender development in which bodily life as the wellspring and organizer or gender is prominent. …
The Relational Tradition: Landscape and Canon
This essay charts the origins, influences, and evolution of the relational tradition in contemporary psychoanalysis. Considering the theoretical and philosophical influences from nineteenth-century Americans like William James and C. S Pierce, and noting the seminal modern work of Steven Mitchell and Jay Greenberg in opening a critique of one-person focused drive theory, the essay follows developments over a quarter century. Hallmarks of the rela…
The Perverse Pact: Racism and White Privilege
The Perverse Pact: Racism and White Privilege Adrienne Harris (bio) Introduction This essay takes up, from a psychoanalytic and cultural theory perspective, the underpinnings and psychic structures of racism, as it is lived out and practiced in the North American context. Considering the investment of white people in many projects of denial and historical amnesia, this is the most daunting task facing communities, large and small. This essay, whi…
Intimacy: The tank in the bedroom
Curative Speech: Symbol, Body, Dialogue
Talking Sex, Talking Gender-A Roundtable
This is an edited transcript of a roundtable held in the Spring of 2012, at the invitation of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, where 4 of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers in the fields of gender and sexuality, Adrienne Harris, Virginia Goldner, Muriel Dimen, and Ken Corbett, came together to discuss the state of the field. Each of the participants prepared 1 question for each of the others. The discussion explored …
The House of Difference, or White Silence
In this article I track three ways of confronting the question of whiteness and its attendant problematic of racism. I look at two personal episodes one involving inheritances from white explorer forebearers and the place of racism in fetishized objects and second in the institutional difficulties within psychoanalysis in finding ways to speak about race and the dilemma of being a beneficiary of racism. Finally I look at the hidden racism in a mu…
Mothers, Monsters, Mentors
In this essay I explore the difficulties many women have in creative work and the relation of this difficulty to conflict with relations to mothers and to women mentors
Language is There to Bewilder Itself and Others”: Theoretical and Clinical Contributions of Sabina Spielrein
Gender in Linear and Nonlinear History
In response to Helen Gediman's notion of premodern, modern, and postmodern eras in the study of gender, an argument is made for a nonlinear approach to this history and for situating it in the context of other historical developments—social, personal, intellectual, and institutional. Differences among modern and postmodern positions in the matter of the role of the body and of social construction are discussed. The impact of transgender and inter…
The Analyst as (Auto)biographer
American Imago - Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 1998
To Whom Does the Subject Speak? Between the Relational and Lacanian Schools of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation With Adrienne Harris and David Lichtenstein, Moderated by Chris Christian
Relational psychoanalysis is a relatively new but increasingly present school in contemporary psychoanalysis. Lacanian psychoanalysis is a dominant presence in France and South America but far less so in the English-speaking clinical world. And there is little contact between them. Adrienne Harris, one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and David Lichtenstein, a prominent New York-based Lacanian-influenced psychoanalyst, came together …
Bhabha Among the Clinicians: Introduction
In this introduction I propose the value of reading Homi Bhabha's Location of Culture (1994 Bhabha , H. ( 1994 ). The Location of Culture . New York , NY : Routledge . [Google Scholar]) for its clinical and theoretical insights and utility for psychoanalysts. I look at how Bhabha's work influences my own thinking about development, about nostalgia and loss, about hybridity, and about cultural alienation and resistance. I introduce 6 essays which …
Film Review: Real women have curves (2002)
(2005). Film Review: Real women have curves (2002) The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 86, No. 5, pp. 1481-1487
Conflict in Relational Treatments
Various features of relational perspectives on conflict are outlined. Points of contact and difference between relational and modern conflict theory are discussed. Five approaches to considering conflict are examined: countertransference conflict as the site of interfaces between the social and the intrapsychic; conflict within the register of speech; conflict within a theory of multiple identifications; conflict as the site of psychic change; an…
Besieging Lasch
Critique of Miller's "Chance, choice, and the future of reproduction."
Critique of Miller's "Chance, choice, and the future of reproduction."
The Feminist Legacy of Karen Horney.Marcia Westkott
The Analyst as (Auto)biographer
American Imago - Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 1998
Politicized Passions A Discussion of Dianne Elise's Essay
Gender as a Sort Assembly Tomboys' Stories
This article draws on a study of tomboys to reflect on developmental theory in psychoanalysis. To illuminate the power of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamic systems theory in understanding gender and sexuality, I trace three lines of theoretical work on gender, relevant to conceptualizing tomboy love and tomboy identity. First, I reexamine the work on gender development in which bodily life as the wellspring and organizer or gender is prominent. …
A Temp in Life A Discussion of Deborah Waxenberg's “On Not Being Supposed To”
A discussion of Deborah Waxenberg's clinical case presentation of a woman with severe inhibitions in work, in intimate relationships, and in the realm of sexuality. The case material is considered in terms of its impact on a reader/listener as a way to consider parallel process in treatment and in supervision. Questions of gender identity, of sexual orientation, and enactment and its sequelae are addressed, along with questions of the patient's n…
Working outside the frame: A discussion of papers by Robert Weinstein and Ubaldo Leli
Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity (review)
Reviewed by: Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity Adrienne Harris and Melanie Suchet Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity. Stephen A. Mitchell. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 2000. xvii & 173 pp. $39.95. This review, written by two relational analysts closely involved in the theoretical and institutional developments formed around the work of Stephen Mitchell, is, perhaps inevitably, an occasion both for memorial and…
Mothers, Monsters, Mentors
In this essay I explore the difficulties many women have in creative work and the relation of this difficulty to conflict with relations to mothers and to women mentors
Working in the Trenches Commentary on Ruth Fallenbaum's Paper
In this paper I respond to Ruth Fallenbaum's account of clinical work with a group of women postal workers. I raise questions about the intersect of political analysis and psychoanalysis, the particular dynamic and structural demands on women workers, as well as the dynamics of precocity in relation to poverty and striving. The work Fallenbaum reports is a wonderful exemplar of clinical work that must remain sensitive on its own terms while the c…
Introduction to Roundtable on Pillar of Salt
(2003). Introduction to Roundtable on Pillar of Salt. Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 150-158
Haunted Bodies: Commentary on Melanie Suchet's “Whose Mind Is It Anyway?”
This essay explores the enigmas of unconscious communication both in treatments and in parallel process in supervision. It extends the concept of intersubjectivity to overlapping dyads and systems. As supervisor in the case in question and as a commentator on Melanie Suchet's moving case report, I speak as observer and as participant. I consider the case material and the supervisory experience as a form of unconscious communication and of unconsc…
Laws, Desires, and Contaminations—Mutuality with a Price: Commentary on Paper by Taras Babiak
In this commentary on Tara Babiak's analytic work with a very disturbed, almost autistic young man, I take up the function of gender categories as defense and as potential; the power of enactments in analytic treatment; and the difficulties of homophobia in patient, analyst and culture. I focus on the uses and functions of gender and ideals of masculinity in the patient's identity. A central enactment early in the treatment gave rise to intense t…
Film Review: Real women have curves (2002)
(2005). Film Review: Real women have curves (2002) The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 86, No. 5, pp. 1481-1487
Film Review: Real women have curves (2002)
Conflict in Relational Treatments
Various features of relational perspectives on conflict are outlined. Points of contact and difference between relational and modern conflict theory are discussed. Five approaches to considering conflict are examined: countertransference conflict as the site of interfaces between the social and the intrapsychic; conflict within the register of speech; conflict within a theory of multiple identifications; conflict as the site of psychic change; an…
Gender in Linear and Nonlinear History
In response to Helen Gediman's notion of premodern, modern, and postmodern eras in the study of gender, an argument is made for a nonlinear approach to this history and for situating it in the context of other historical developments—social, personal, intellectual, and institutional. Differences among modern and postmodern positions in the matter of the role of the body and of social construction are discussed. The impact of transgender and inter…
Gender as Soft Assembly
In urging us to think of gender as coconstructed in a variety of relational contexts, Adrienne Harris enlarges her psychoanalytic sensibility with the insights of attachment theory, linguistics, queer theory, and feminist criticism. Nor is she inattentive to the impact of history and culture on gender meanings. Special consideration is given to chaos theory, which Harris positions at the cutting edge of developmental psychology and uses to genera…
Two To Tango: Commentary On Celenza
Conversation on Marriage for Lesbian and Gay People: Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Marriage Roundtable
Social Dialectics and Language: Mother and Child Construct the Discourse
The child’s development of productive control over the adult language system is seen as an outcome of the dynamic social discourse of parent and child. Traditional approaches to child language are reviewed and a dialectical analysis is alternatively developed using concepts from information theory and a general systems approach. The dialogue of mother and child is treated as an open system. The central and mutually regulated activity is the const…
Desire in History
The formal problems in developmental theory of continuity and change are examined through a consideration of Melvin Feffer’s 1982 work The Structure of Freudian Thought. In Feffer’s analysis, development is characterized by a two-stage process: a pars pro toto schema in which one element of a total relation is highlighted, and a subsequent level of hierarchical reorganization. This model is used to assess several psychological theories, including…
James McLaughlin: Gentle Radical
This consideration of the contributions of James McLaughlin focuses on his work on impasse and enactment, as well as on his ideas about shame as a constitutive force in development. McLaughlin is situated in his context and viewed as an innovative and radical thinker with powerful and novel ideas about both countertransference and the analyst's subjectivity and authenticity
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