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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... patient process has been a consistent and steady thread through the narratives of relational psychoanalysis. This is one way of defining the force of the community or the “analytic third.” The question of community values (Greenberg ...
... patient process has been a consistent and steady thread through the narratives of relational psychoanalysis. This is one way of defining the force of the community or the “analytic third.” The question of community values (Greenberg ...
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... patients than with doctors and functioned somewhere between doctor and patient. He felt, he said, a malaise that ... patient and who must therefore address our practices as places of coercion and subject production as well as healing ...
... patients than with doctors and functioned somewhere between doctor and patient. He felt, he said, a malaise that ... patient and who must therefore address our practices as places of coercion and subject production as well as healing ...
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... patients might be imagined in the way Bion (1962) thought about knowing. Curiosity and the claim to know could be kinds of loving and attaching, but also forms of devouring and acquiring. To practice from the depressive position entails ...
... patients might be imagined in the way Bion (1962) thought about knowing. Curiosity and the claim to know could be kinds of loving and attaching, but also forms of devouring and acquiring. To practice from the depressive position entails ...
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... patient's gender experience are shifts on a continuum of dissociative splits. In chapter 2 I take up the question of time as a feature of developmental theory. Developmental theories and the research tradition in academic psychology ...
... patient's gender experience are shifts on a continuum of dissociative splits. In chapter 2 I take up the question of time as a feature of developmental theory. Developmental theories and the research tradition in academic psychology ...
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... patient in a long-term psychotherapy in which, over time, we have developed two intertwining storylines. We live out variations of the terrifying disruptions in her early life. But, antiphonally with these processes of rupture ...
... patient in a long-term psychotherapy in which, over time, we have developed two intertwining storylines. We live out variations of the terrifying disruptions in her early life. But, antiphonally with these processes of rupture ...
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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