In Beyond Doer and Done To, Jessica Benjamin, author of the path-breaking Bonds of Love,
expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of" …

No one who takes pleasure in ideas can fail to find the writings of Jessica Benjamin a source
of delight, surprise, and reflection. One of the most profound psychoanalytic theoreticians of …

jessica benjamin is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City who also teaches and
supervises at the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis …

The recent focus on mutual recognition in contemporary psychoanalysis has several roots:
infant research, self psychology, feminism, Hegel, and Winnicott. This article argues that …

In this important book, the author of The Bonds of Love discusses gender issues from the
perspective of developmental psychoanalysis. Jessica Benjamin, a well-known …

“Knowing one's patient inside out” is a metaphor that is intended to capture the paradoxical
quality of the intersubjective field that we call the analytic relationship. The interface among …

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme
selves: Dorothea had early begun to emerge from that stupidity, but yet it had been easier to …

Analytic work based on the intersubjective view of two participating subjectivities requires
discipline rooted in an orientation to the structural conditions of thirdness. The author …

During early development, every human being is exposed to the relative impact of relational
trauma–disconfirmation of aspects of oneself as having legitimate existence in the world of …

The field, as Steven Cooper describes it, is comprised of the inextricably related worlds of
internalized object relations and interpersonal interaction. Furthermore, the analytic dyad is …