Jessica Benjamin

Jessica Benjamin ( born January 17, 1946) is an American psychoanalyst and feminist.

Life and work

Jessica Benjamin grew up as the child of Jewish immigrants in America. In 1967 she began a study of the social sciences with Theodor W. Adorno at the University of Frankfurt am Main, which she completed in New York in 1978 with a doctorate. She then began training to be a psychoanalyst.

Jessica Benjamin practiced as a psychoanalyst in New York City and teaches at the Psychology Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at New York University. She co-founded the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies in New York.

Her publications made ​​a significant contribution to the theory of intersubjectivity in psychoanalysis. In her early work she sat apart, inter alia, with feminism and early childhood origins of patriarchal structures by connecting the Hegelian idea of the struggle for recognition with the psychoanalytic theory concept she sought ( The shackles of love, 1988). In recent years, she worked at the explanation of the classic aspects of psychoanalysis using object relations theory, infant research, relational psychoanalysis, and feminist theories. Benjamin's current work deals with the theme of " intersubjective analytic third " where she focuses primarily on the cognitive process and the recognition of the trauma.

She is currently organizing a series of workshops with the aim to put in practice a process of mutual recognition between Palestinians and Israelis who work in health care in transition.

In May 2008 she was invited by the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna, where he gave the traditional Sigmund Freud lecture.

Writings

  • The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination, 1988; German: The bonds of love. Psychoanalysis, feminism and the problem of power; transl. by Nils Thomas Lindquist and Diana Müller, Basel 1990, then Frankfurt / M. 1994, Frankfurt / M. 2004 ( 3rd edition ), ISBN 3-86109-168-2.
  • Like Subjects and Love Objects: Essays on Recognition, Identification and Difference, 1995 ( trans. by Helgard Kramer ... ): Fantasy and gender. Psychoanalytic studies of idealized, recognition and difference, Basel 1993, Frankfurt / M. 1996, ISBN 3-596-12858-7.
  • ( trans. by Irmgard Hölscher ): The shadow of the other. Intersubjectivity, gender, psychoanalysis, Stroemfeld Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3-86109-145-3.

Editorship

  • Indeterminate boundaries. Contributions to psychoanalysis, gender, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-596-11954-5.

Awards

2008: Sigmund Freud lecture in Vienna

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