Sex and Subjectivity, and Self Psychology: Discussion of Herzog’s Dolph and Gus

Abstract

This discussion attempts to bring a relational and contextual sensibility to Herzog’s case material in “Dolph and Gus: War of the Worlds.” In doing so, issues concerning sex and gender, the forward edge, and the intersubjective field are explored, and an emphasis on wholeness is advocated in an effort to expand the arena of clinical inquiry.

Keywords:

• forward edge
• intersubjective
• relational
• self psychology
• sex
• subjectivity
• wholeness

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Janna Horowitz Sandmeyer

Dr. Janna Sandmeyer is Chair of the Contemporary Approaches to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and she is supervisor and faculty at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Dr. Sandmeyer is in private practice in Washington, D.C.