ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic believing is situated in a social frame, promoted through the potential of mental freedom, and found within the therapeutic action of playing.
Notes
1 John Broughton introduced me to these writers in a seminar on personality and culture. I would be remiss to not recognize my debt to the spirit of his pedagogy, and his remarkable generosity as I made my way into what I did not know would become my life’s work.
2 I fill this space between psychoanalysts and cultural theorists with a brimming chorus: Galit Atlas, Lewis Aron, Lisa Baraister, Jessica Benjamin, Lauren Berlant, Daniel Butler, Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Anne Cheng, Francoise Davoine & Jean-Max Gaudilliere, Muriel Dimen, Daivd Eng & Shinhee Han, Franz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Stephen Frosch, Virginia Goldner, Francisco Gonzàles, Orna Guralnik, Griffin Hansbury, Adrienne Harris, Stephen Hartman, Saidiya Hartman, Annie Lee Jones, AB Huber, Lynne Layton, Kimberly Leary, Julie Levitt, David Marriot, Jade Mc Gleughlin, Robert Mc Ruer, Fred Moten, Josè Muñoz, Ann Pellegrini, Eyal Rozmarin, Jaqueline Rose, Gayle Rubin, Avgi Saketopoulou, Andrew Samuels, Eve Sedgwick, Gayle Solomon, Karen Star, Warren Spielberg & Kirkland Vaughans, Gillian Straker, Melanie Suchet, and Eyal Rozmarin.
3 Of particular note is work underway to reconstruct training curricula at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
4 See Ogden (Citation2019) for an intriguing discussion of what he terms the “ontological” turn in psychoanalysis, a move toward being and becoming, and a move away from the founding “epistemological” frame of psychoanalysis, based in knowing and interpretation.
6 My thoughts about working through are so over-determined, and rest on reading and re-reading many psychoanalytic theorists. It is impossible to pay due heed to them all. I direct readers to the following writers, to whom I often return on those days (and they are many) when I feel stuck: (Alvarez, Citation1998; Aron, Citation2001; Benjamin, Citation1998, Citation2017; Bick, Citation1968; Bion, Citation1967, Citation1970; Bollas, Citation1989; Butler, Citation2005, Citation2006; Bromberg, Citation2001; Cooper, Citation2011, Citation2019; Davies, Citation2018; Ferro, Citation2006; Green, Citation1993, Citation1997; Grossmark, Citation2012; Harris, Citation2009; Levine, Citation2016; Loewald, Citation1989; Mitchell, Citation1995, Citation2000; Ogden, Citation1997, Citation2012, Citation2019; Parsons, Citation1999; Reis, Citation2020; Seligman, Citation2014: Stern, Citation2013a, Citation2013b, Winnicott, Citation2017).
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Ken Corbett
Ken Corbett, Ph.D., Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities, and A Murder Over A Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High.
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