Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Gender-free Case

Abstract

E. L. K. Toronto, Introduction. Section I: Gender Unbound. E. L. K. Toronto, Case Presentation and Discussion. E. L. K. Toronto, The Feminine Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Theory. Section II: Suspending Certainty in the Consulting Room. M. Walsh Donovan, Case/Section Commentary. J. Alpert, Childhoods Driven Wrong. B. Gerson, An Analyst's Pregnancy Loss and Its Effects on Treatment Disruption and Growth. J. Sarnat, Working in the Space Between Psychoanalytic and Trauma Oriented Approaches to Stories of Abuse. Section III: Family Relationships: Shifting Perspectives. N. McWilliams, Case/Section Commentary. C. C. Kieffer, Selfobjects, Oedipal Objects and Mutual Recognition: a self-psychological reappraisal of the female Oedipal victor. M. Walsh Donovan, Demeter and Persephone Revisited: Ambivalence and Separation in the Mother-Daughter Relationship. R. Lax, Boys' Envy of Mother and the Consequences of this Narcissistic Mortification. N. McWilliams, Mothering and Fathering Processes in the Psychoanalytic Arts. Section IV: Beneath the Bedrock: The Gender of Desire. G. Ainslie, Case/Section Commentary. P. Young Eisendrath, The Female Person and How We Talk About Her. D. Elise, Woman and Desire: Why Women May Not Want to Want. Section V: Multiplicity: Postmodern Revisions of Gender. C. C. Kieffer, Case/Section Commentary. L. Layton, Who's That Girl, Who's That Boy. V. Goldner, Ironic Gender, Authentic Sex. G. Gerber, Gender Stereotypes and the Change Toward Greater Personal Maturity in Psychotherapy. S. Knoblauch, The Music of Masculinity: Clinical Attention to Tone and Rhythm in Gender Construction. K. Leary, Race in Psychoanalytic Space. M. Dimen, Afterword.