Psychoanalysis at Its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn

Elliott, Anthony; Spezzano, Charles

doi:10.1080/21674086.1996.11927483

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“…A psychodynamic reading of the material was simultaneously undertaken. This reading was governed by the principle that both discourse and psychoanalytic theory pertain to the relation between subject and object or self and other (Henriques, Hollway, Urwin, Venn, & Walkerdine, 1984;Elliott & Spezzano, 2000). Discourse theory understands this relation through the operations of power (Foucault, 1975;1980) and the constructions of subjects and objects (Parker, 1992).…”

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“I Don't Know Who to Blame”: Hiv-Positive South African Women Navigating Heterosexual Infection

Long

2009

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Women who become HIV infected through heterosexual transmission are faced with the task of making sense of how they became infected. This paper presents a qualitative analysis based on interviews with 35 HIV-positive South African Black women. A specific theme, that blame of a male partner was avoided or disavowed in interviews, is explored in relation to broader contexts concerning gender and HIV. It is suggested that the repeated phrase “I don't know who to blame” expresses gender-differentiated speaking rights. It also protects women from voicing their own anger, guilt and internalization of badness as a result of an HIV-positive diagnosis. Further, it protects women from exposure to male destructiveness and from confronting the possibility that they themselves are implicated in the infection of others. Analysis offers opportunities for exploring how women both resist and repeat dominant discourses and dominant fears related to HIV-infected womanhood.

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“I Don't Know Who to Blame”: Hiv-Positive South African Women Navigating Heterosexual Infection

Long

2009

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…3 These contemporary studies have included developmental (Beebe, Lachmann, and Jaffe 1997;Emde 1990;Main 2000;D. N. Stern 1985), philosophical (Cavell 1988(Cavell , 1998Elliott and Spezzano 2000;Gergen 1994), and semiotic (Muller 1996) contributions. Throughout these literatures, we are reminded that our sensibilities are formed and reformed by the presence of the other, and that our seemingly autonomous selves are social constructions, containing what Vygotsky (1978) aptly referred to as a culturally embedded "loan of consciousness," while constituting individuals as containing "a consciousness of two" (p. 88).…”

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The Relational Unconscious: a Core Element of Intersubjectivity, Thirdness, and Clinical Process

Gerson¹

2004

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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The relational unconscious is the fundamental structuring property of each interpersonal relation; it permits, as well as constrains, modes of engagement specific to that dyad and influences individual subjective experience within the dyad. Three usages of the concept of thirdness are delineated and contrasted with the concept of the relational unconscious, which, it is suggested, has the advantage of being both consistent with existing views of unconscious processes and more directly applicable to therapeutic concerns. Enactments and intersubjective resistances are viewed as clinical manifestations of the relational unconscious, and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis results, in part, from altering the structure of the relational unconscious that binds analysand and analyst.

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“…In an article in which the word radical appears at least four times, Elliott and Spezzano (1996) refer to the "emancipatory" (p. 69) potential of the kind of self-reflexivity promoted by psychoanalysis influenced by postmodernism. Schwartz (1995) hails the "liberatory potential of psychoanalysis" (p. 121) as he makes his call to "open the system to the denied pleasures" (p. 124).…”

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The Politics of Relational Psychoanalysis

Botticelli

2004

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

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Psychoanalysis at Its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

“I Don't Know Who to Blame”: Hiv-Positive South African Women Navigating Heterosexual Infection

“I Don't Know Who to Blame”: Hiv-Positive South African Women Navigating Heterosexual Infection

The Relational Unconscious: a Core Element of Intersubjectivity, Thirdness, and Clinical Process

The Politics of Relational Psychoanalysis

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