Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field is a collection of reading and writing experiments inspired by the late feminist psychoanalyst Muriel Dimen.
Each of the six projects that comprise this volume explores a stylistic and thematic manner of reading and responding to Dimens work, challenging the field to write outside the standardized edition, and covering a remarkable breadth of essential analytic topics, such as sex, gender, money, love and hate, and boundary violations. As an homage to Dimens quest to engage the personal and the political in the authors craft, and in collaboration with Dimens endeavour to foster revolution across the psychosocial landscape that renders psychoanalysis its field, the authors offer readers a wild analysis of reading and writing.
Providing a clear introduction to and exploration of Muriel Dimens groundbreaking work, this book will prove essential for scholars of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and gender studies, as well as anyone seeking to understand Dimens influence on psychoanalytic practice today.
Reading with Muriel Dimen / Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field is a collection of reading and writing experiments inspired by the late feminist psychoanalyst Muriel Dimen.
Recenzijas
Bringing together six of the most provocative of Muriel Dimens essays, Hartman wisely and playfully frames each with a team of invited commentaries that underscore Dimens unique way of mixing theory building, self-reflection, and political aims to enliven the psychoanalytic field. The commentaries form a diverse set of interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international and intersectionally informed writers respond to Dimens call for a wild practice, a revolutionizing form of psychoanalytic reasoning that does not lose sight of collective concerns of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. Reading with Muriel Dimen / Writing with Muriel Dimen is a real treat: a brilliant and passionate conversation in which Muriels vision and voice are given to us fresh with insight for these times.
Patricia Ticineto Clough, professor of Sociology and Womens Studies, psychoanalyst, and author of The User Unconscious
Foreword by Virginia Goldner Among Us: Reading and Writing with Muriel
Dimen Project One: Politically Correct / Politically Incorrect - Redux and
Revise
1. Project One, Editor's Note
2. Politically Correct? Politically
Incorrect?
3. To Capture the Frenzied Politically In/Correct?
4. Ela
5. Note
6. In Muriel Dimen's Footsteps - Five Notes on the Politically Correct and
Politically Coerced in Current Israeli Contexts
7. Note
8. Note
9. Stars and
Stripes Forever
10. Making Life Accessible: A Note From the Suicidal to
Society
11. The Limitations of White Liberal Discourse: Political Correctness
as Dual Defense
12. The Unresolved Questions Muriel Dimen Helped me Raise
13.
On Political Correctness: A Plea for an Intersectional Frame
14. The
Political Incorrectness of Feminism in the Wake of Calls for Decolonization
in South Africa
15. The Politically Correct and Incorrectness of
Intersectionality in Feminist Discourse
16. Bring Back the Curbs on Political
Incorrectness Project Two: On Money, Love, and Hate
1. Project Two, Editor's
Note
2. On Money, Love, and Hate: Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis
3. Good Night, See You Next Week
4. The Empty Platter ProjectThree: Talking
about Sexuality and Suffering or the Eew! Factor: What's a Nice Vanilla
Analyst to Do?
1. Project Three, Editor's Note
2. Sexuality and Suffering, Or
the Eew! Factor
3. What's a Nice Vanilla Analyst to Do? An Intergenerational
Conversation on Muriel Dimen's "The Eew Factor" Project Four: Wild Times /
Wild Analysis / Wild Revolution
1. Project Four, Editor's Note
2. Inside the
Revolution: Power, Sex, and Technique in Freud's "'Wild Analysis'"
3. The
Wild, The Revolution, The Abject Social Imaginary, The Racialized
Psychoanalytic Setting ProjectFive: Rotten Apples - Talking about It/Them/Us
1. Project Five, Editor's Note
2. Rotten Apples and Ambivalence: Sexual
Boundary Violations through a Psychocultural Lens
3. Paradise Lost: What Is
Most Dangerous About Our Method - Muriel Dimen's 'Rotten Apples and
Ambivalence': Sexual Boundary Violations Through a Psychocultural Lens
4. No
Sex, Please. We're Psychoanalysts ProjectSix: Of Ghosts and Groups
1. Project
Six, Editor's Note
2. Ghosts and the Sexual Boundary Violation: The Limits of
an Idea Afterword
Stephen Hartman is an Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a former editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and NYU, and author of 40 articles and book chapters that explore the interface of technology and psychoanalysis through a psychosocial lens. Stephen practises in San Francisco and New York. His road bike and yoga mat are parked in Brooklyn.
