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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... metaphors raises the question of what a theory should be able to do. Thinking of a theory as a narrative or as a metaphor is already a move away from theory as a deductive instrument predicting outcomes. Yet we also know that even ...
... metaphors raises the question of what a theory should be able to do. Thinking of a theory as a narrative or as a metaphor is already a move away from theory as a deductive instrument predicting outcomes. Yet we also know that even ...
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... metaphors. One of my goals here is to reconsider developmental theory in the light of the important and telling ... metaphor to think about the whole range of an analyst's or a theorist's functioning—I imagine that we are embedded ...
... metaphors. One of my goals here is to reconsider developmental theory in the light of the important and telling ... metaphor to think about the whole range of an analyst's or a theorist's functioning—I imagine that we are embedded ...
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... metaphor often brought to bear on thinking of the role of authority and rule in healing practices is that of prison, a metaphor that we owe principally to Michel Foucault. Foucault is often positioned in psychoanalysis in a notorious ...
... metaphor often brought to bear on thinking of the role of authority and rule in healing practices is that of prison, a metaphor that we owe principally to Michel Foucault. Foucault is often positioned in psychoanalysis in a notorious ...
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... . I hope to clear some space, a kind of transitional space where I can work within a relational framework and can reflect on and make use of developmental processes. Daniel Dennett (1991) offered a metaphor for his efforts at.
... . I hope to clear some space, a kind of transitional space where I can work within a relational framework and can reflect on and make use of developmental processes. Daniel Dennett (1991) offered a metaphor for his efforts at.
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... metaphor let me offer another, more humbling image. Local, historically specific theory is theory with a limited shelflife. Schafer (1997) made this point by suggesting that an analyst must live in multiple necessary fictions, the ...
... metaphor let me offer another, more humbling image. Local, historically specific theory is theory with a limited shelflife. Schafer (1997) made this point by suggesting that an analyst must live in multiple necessary fictions, the ...
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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