Representing Female Desire Within A Labial Framework of Sexuality

Schiller, Britt-Marie

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“…When a child’s strivings to embody erotic desire for others are identified as masculinity or femininity by a caregiver, the child’s emerging erotic desire is denied recognition in the caregiver’s mind, recognition the child profoundly needs to be able to consolidate the self as a subject of desire (Benjamin 1991; Schiller 2012). Children can experience this renaming (of desire as gender) as a meaningful non-comment on their desire, a redirecting by the caregiver that implicitly signals that their desire is bad.…”

Section: The Traumatization Of Erotic Desire For Othersmentioning

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On Becoming And Being A Subject Of Sexual Desire

Harkless

2023

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Emergent erotic desire, it is proposed, becomes represented in the mind and body through identification with caregivers as subjects of desire. Here the focus within desire is on erotic desire for another person, both desire for and the wish to be desirable to particular others. Children are seen to identify with caregivers’ modes of embodying erotic desire for others (including ways of moving, dressing, relating, and so on that they fantasize as expressing erotic desire for others) in order to represent, psychically and bodily, their emerging erotic desire. These identifications— desire identifications—have a role in representing desire for others that is comparable to the role played by gender identifications in the representation of gender. Embodiments of desire for others, it is argued, are distinguishable (momentarily) from embodiments of masculinity and femininity. These embodiments of desire are routinely characterized, erroneously, as masculinity or femininity by caregivers and culture, and this misrecognition of desire for others as gender is traumatic to the self in its formation as a subject of desire. An extended clinical case is presented to illustrate how desire identifications might arise in the analytic dyad, relationally, bodily, and erotically in the transference-countertransference.

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Section: The Traumatization Of Erotic Desire For Othersmentioning

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On Becoming And Being A Subject Of Sexual Desire

Harkless

2023

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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“…If we don’t invent a language, if we don’t find our body’s language, it will have too few gestures to accompany our story” (p. 214). Attempting to think “outside the phallus,” I have, in an earlier paper (Schiller 2012), articulated a representation of female desire within a labial framework. This framework is grounded in the morphology of the female body, that is, in the experiences of female anatomy, not the anatomy “itself.” Since the construction of gender is intertwined with desire (which does not mean they are the same), I suggest that a key to disillusioning femininity is to counterbalance the Freudian psychoanalytic construction of gender with a construction of female desire within a labial framework constructed on Irigaray’s apothegm “By our lips we are women” (Irigaray 1985).…”

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“…To counterbalance this Freudian construction of gender, I propose a labial framework for representing female subjectivity and desire. Here femininity is constructed as potency in the sense of generative power (Schiller 2012).…”

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Disillusioning Gender

Schiller¹

2018

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Illusions are not errors but erroneous beliefs motivated by wishful ideas and fantasies. To disillusion gender is to challenge the traditional Freudian construction that splits masculinity and femininity into agency versus passivity, the first with power, the second without. Disillusioning femininity as impotent frees up potency and power as generativity. Disillusioning masculinity as phallic and omnipotent opens the masculine subject to permeability and vulnerability. Illusions regarding the transgender include the idea that there are only two gender categories and the idea that gender identity is generated solely from an internal sense of self. The wish "to be seen as" or "to pass as" one gender or the other shows that social structures exceed the individual. At least for now, the disillusionment of gender with which we are left marks a tension between the internal sense of gender identity and the social structures of gender.

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Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Superego Functioning Following CS Readministration Procedures: Case Illustration

Yalof¹,

Rosenstein²

2013

Journal of Personality Assessment

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The Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003) has specific procedures to address brief Rorschach protocols when the first administration yields fewer than 14 responses. These procedures involve the assessor's asking the client to retake the test by providing more responses on the second administration than the first administration. The request carries with it an implicit criticism of the client's initial effort and a mandate to improve performance on retake. The retake request, with its ambiguously worded demand for improved performance, engages the client's superego (i.e., the client feels judged) and makes it possible to study superego manifestations (e.g., guilt, shame) on the Rorschach test, using a model of (a) brief first record, (b) retake directive, and (c) second administration. We present a case that illustrates a clinical strategy, modeled on a psychoanalytic understanding of the CS retake procedure, for studying the client's superego functioning under retest conditions.

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Representing Female Desire Within A Labial Framework of Sexuality

Cited by 5 publications

References 45 publications

On Becoming And Being A Subject Of Sexual Desire

On Becoming And Being A Subject Of Sexual Desire

Disillusioning Gender

Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Superego Functioning Following CS Readministration Procedures: Case Illustration

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