On Being Bad and Good: My Brilliant Friend Muriel Dimen

ABSTRACT

This essay focuses on Muriel Dimen’s work on ambivalence as an important factor in female identity formation through a parallel with Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend novels.

Notes

¹ Ferrante comes from the Latin ferro meaning iron.

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Velleda C. Ceccoli

Velleda C. Ceccoli, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst/psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculties of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; The Stephen Mitchell Center; the Instituto di Specializzazione in Psicologia del Se e Psicoanalisi Relazionale in Milan, Italy; and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, where she is a training and supervising analyst. She is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality and writes the ongoing psychoanalytic blog called Out of My Mind.