Discussion: Janine de Peyer’s “Unspoken Rhapsody: Female Erotic Countertransference and the Dissociation of Desire”

Abstract

This paper discusses Janine de Peyer’s paper on erotic countertransference, “Unspoken Rhapsody: Female Erotic Countertransference and the Dissociation of Desire,” from the perspective of ontological and relational models of treatment. Its argument also draws on the work of Laplanche on sexuality, enigmatic seduction and the radical alterity of human sexuality.

Keywords:

• erotic countertransference
• ontological
• enigmatic
• messages
• ethics

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Adrienne E. Harris

Adrienne E. Harris, PhD is Faculty and Supervisor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also on the faculty and is a supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an Editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. In 2009, she, Lewis Aron, and Jeremy Safran established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at The New School for Social Research.