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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... material accrues , becoming the host to many experiences not essentially tied to gender or to sexuality . I think of gender as always to be understood in material terms . I like the term ' material ' better than ' bio- logical ' . And ...
... material con- ditions starkly to mark the psyche and for those markings to cross generations . We might think of class as having layers of conscious and unconscious meaning , living as encrypted or secret identifications long after the ...
... material of child knowledge and child fan- tasy . This approach is similar to that developed by Abraham and Torok ( 1994 ) , who speak of encrypted identifications , which carry projective material from the earlier generation and embeds ...
Contents
Chaos Theory as a Model for Development | 73 |
4 | 101 |
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