(Imagining) Erotic Mutuality
Negotiating Difference in Sexual Orientation in an Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16782020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debra Roth (Institute of Contemporary History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 173-184 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1080/15240650903227981 |
| OpenAlex | W2277449245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article explores the clinical limitations of an exclusive adherence to the oedipal paradigm for the understanding of erotic material in the transference/countertransference in analytic treatments where the participants identify with differing sexual orientations. Its central argument posits that possibilities for recognizing developmentally significant, evolved connections with patients of all genders and sexual orientations is subtly circumscribed when understanding of these phenomena is partitioned chiefly by the “either/or” of a positive or negative form of oedipal desire. The argument goes on to query and challenge formulations of a universal bisexuality as a satisfactory resolution to this conundrum, again, particularly when the 2 analytic partners claim different sexual orientations. Part object relations as residue of an early and ubiquitous polymorphous perversity are proposed as useful theoretical and clinical alternatives. Case material is also provided
Countertransference · Epistemology · Negotiation · Object relations theory · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sexual behavior · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Transference · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
Unformulated experience
Gender and sexuality
Deconstructing difference
This Sex Which is Not One
Feminism/Postmodernism
On the Problem(s) with Keeping Difference(s) Where They Belong Response to Lynne Layton
Bye-Bye” to Bisexuality? Response to Lynne Layton
Erotic Overstimulation and The Co-Construction of Sexual Meanings in Transference-Countertransference Experience
Getting Cold Feet, Defining “Safe-Enough” Borders
The analyst's theory
The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Toward a critical relational theory of gender
The Psychopolitics of Bisexuality
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |