The Bonds of Love

Looking Backward

Bibliographic Data

ID4577445
AuthorsJessica Benjamin (0000-0001-8966-4214, American Institute for Psychoanalysis, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume14
Issue1
Pages1-15
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15240657.2013.756769
OpenAlexW2166716690
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited19

In giving this brief account of the development of and influences on the book I hope to make it possible to see its location in a particular moment of not only psychoanalytic history but also the social and intellectual history of my generation. I delineate the influence of specific individuals, but more important, the way in which I was located in a number of transformational movements and disciplinary currents: the German student movement and the critical social theory it embraced, feminism and its particular way of revising psychoanalysis, infancy research and the transformations it brought to psychoanalysis, relational analysis and the changes in clinical practice. I also try to give some sense of the direction in which the book pointed me, where I see the main continuities with current thinking. Inasmuch as The Bonds of Love (1988) was an effort to bring together all these currents to think about a specific set of problems, it seemed right to me to mainly fill in the story of those tributaries and leave others to carry forward their own thinking about those problems in light of the present

Discipline · Epistemology · Feminism · German · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Social science · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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