On the Relation to Non-Relationality

Abstract

This paper puts forward the idea that “relationality” can exist only in relation to something that is necessarily non-relational, and by extension argues in favor of such open structures for psychoanalytic theorizing. After making the distinction between relational theory and the Relational movement, it takes up and elaborates two registers of “non-relationality,” the domains of place and of the body.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Francisco J. González

Francisco J. González, M.D., is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He practices in San Francisco and Oakland, CA.