Islands of Encounter
A Reflection on the Place of Psychoanalysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16782007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Stephens (0000-0001-7303-0372, Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, corresponding author), Michelle A Stephens |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-72 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15240657.2018.1419698 |
| OpenAlex | W2790411613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
What is an encounter? What is an island? How can discourses on islands speak to our understanding of the place of practice and the placing of affect in the psychoanalytic encounter? Using notions of the island in philosophy and Caribbean Studies, this essay offers a brief reflection on the psychoanalytic encounter as an islanded field of interaction. The psychoanalytic frame islands analyst and analysand, setting the experience in the consulting room off as different from other forms of social interaction. But this is a dyadic island in an archipelago of relations, where overlapping and interlapping waves of relation keep shifting the frame
Archaeology · Archipelago · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |