Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis

Jessica Benjamin

Routledge, 1998 - Psychology - 129 pages

"Shadow of the Other is a discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an "other"--Other individuals. The first regards the other as a s work apart is her brilliant utilization of a systematic dialectical approach to her subject, always maintaining the delicate balance between opposing tensions: masculinity and femininity, subjectivity and objectivity, passivity and activity, love and aggression, fantasy and reality, modernism and postmodernism, the intrapsychic and the intersubjective. Benjamin s work apart is her brilliant utilization of a systematic dialectical approach to her subject, always maintaining the delicate balance between opposing other as a mental repository fo unwanted characteristics cast from the self. Jessica benjamin shows the implications of this dual relationship for male/female hierarchy and offers a possibility for balancing the two. This book continues the author's well-known explorations of the themes of intersubjectivity and gender, taking up issues at the forefront of contemporary debates in feminist theory and psychoanalysis."--Publisher description.

About the author

Jessica Benjamin is a psychoanalyst in New York City, where she is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Bonds of Love (1988) and Like Objects, Love Objects (1995).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis; Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis, Jessica Benjamin
• Author: Jessica Benjamin
• Publisher: Routledge, 1998
• ISBN: 0415912369, 9780415912365
• Length: 129 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / General; Psychology / Mental Health; Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis; Psychology / Psychotherapy / General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Gender Studies