Gender as Soft AssemblyGender as Soft Assembly weaves together insights from different disciplinary domains to open up new vistas of clinical understanding of what it means to inhabit, to perform, and to be, gendered. Opposing the traditional notion of development as the linear unfolding of predictable stages, Adrienne Harris argues that children become gendered in multiply configured contexts. And she proffers new developmental models to capture the fluid, constructed, and creative experiences of becoming and being gendered. According to Harris, these models, and the images to which they give rise, articulate not only with contemporary relational psychoanalysis but also with recent research into the origins of mentalization and symbolization. In urging us to think of gender as co-constructed in a variety of relational contexts, 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 generate new perspectives and new images for comprehending and working clinically with gender. |
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... feeling (endlessly open, rushed and full, gaping or cramped), is deeply subjectively and intersubjectively coconstructed. Over time we developed an almost ritualized scene. There would be the look on my face, welcoming or wary. Then, in ...
... feeling (endlessly open, rushed and full, gaping or cramped), is deeply subjectively and intersubjectively coconstructed. Over time we developed an almost ritualized scene. There would be the look on my face, welcoming or wary. Then, in ...
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... feels true can sometimes be driven by what has usefulness. Our theory making outside the consulting room and the theory making we do inside when we interpret to patients might be imagined in the way Bion (1962) thought about knowing ...
... feels true can sometimes be driven by what has usefulness. Our theory making outside the consulting room and the theory making we do inside when we interpret to patients might be imagined in the way Bion (1962) thought about knowing ...
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... feelings are these? We understand that in analytic dyads we hold and hoard our experience. We are subjects and objects. We project, disown, appropriate, or colonize. Analytic work is often a matter of negotiating multiple potential ...
... feelings are these? We understand that in analytic dyads we hold and hoard our experience. We are subjects and objects. We project, disown, appropriate, or colonize. Analytic work is often a matter of negotiating multiple potential ...
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... feelings of one kind or another guide Bromberg to salient interpersonal moments where change seems immanent or in progress. In a similar vein, Spezzano's (1993) work on affect gives interpersonally constructed feeling states and ...
... feelings of one kind or another guide Bromberg to salient interpersonal moments where change seems immanent or in progress. In a similar vein, Spezzano's (1993) work on affect gives interpersonally constructed feeling states and ...
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... feeling both multiplicity and authenticity. Dee is my patient in a long-term psychotherapy in which, over time, we ... feels numb and cotton headed. Rageful, angry feelings are often produced in the mimetic voice of others she is ...
... feeling both multiplicity and authenticity. Dee is my patient in a long-term psychotherapy in which, over time, we ... feels numb and cotton headed. Rageful, angry feelings are often produced in the mimetic voice of others she is ...
Contents
Timelines and Temporalities | |
Chaos Theory as a Model for Development | |
Gender Narratives in Psychoanalysis | |
Tomboys Stories | |
Genders Multidimensionality | |
Genders Emerge in Contexts | |
Chaos Theory as a Map to Contemporary Gender Theorists | |
Learning | |
Relational Mourning as Shared Labor | |
Endnotes | |
References | |
Subject Index | |
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