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Through a series of expansive essays,
Transference, Love, Being explores the centrality of love in psychoanalytic practice. Starting with the immersion of the analyst, this book reimagines several aspects of the psychoanalytic process, including transference, countertransference, boundaries, embodiment, subjectivity and eroticism.
List of contents
Part I: Transference, 1. Transference, real or unreal, 2. Paradox in the psychoanalytic stance, 3. The historically fetishized couch, 4. Changes in the frame, 5. Safety, danger, couch, chair, 6. The analyst as objectified other, 7. The analyst as subjective object, 8. The analyst as subject, 9. Where is psychoanalysis?, 10. The nature of boundaries, 11. Sexual boundary violations and theoretical orientation, 12. The inadvertent pluralist, 13. The art of the boundary, 14. Stance and attentional set in analytic listening, 15. Directed attentional set, 16. Diffuse attentional set, 17. Stance, set, transference, Part II: Love, 18. The erotic field, 19. The maternal erotic transference, 20. From a foreclosed void to usable space, 21. The fate of feminine signifiers, 22. Le visage de la mère, 23. Identificatory love and object love, 24. The promise that seduces desire, 25. The phenomenal experience of touch, 26. Embodied countertransference, 27. What, where is home, Part III: Being, 28. The unbearable multiplicity of experience, 29. On empathic resonance, 30. Embodiment and the perversion of desire, 31. Perversion and its qualities of being, 32. Transitional perverse scenarios, 33. Psychic positions, healthy perverse, 34. Reverie, countertransference, retranscription, 35. Mutual influence in contemporary film, 36. To be in it with, 37. "Yes and ..." dreams
About the author
Andrea Celenza is a training and supervising analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School. She is also adjunct faculty at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. She has written numerous papers on love, sexuality and psychoanalysis. She offers two online courses and is the recipient of several awards. Her writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, Russian and Farsi. She is in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.
Summary
Through a series of expansive essays, Transference, Love, Being explores the centrality of love in psychoanalytic practice. Starting with the immersion of the analyst, this book reimagines several aspects of the psychoanalytic process, including transference, countertransference, boundaries, embodiment, subjectivity and eroticism.
