Muriel’s Claims on Psychoanalysis (and Me)

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This essay memorializes Muriel Dimen and her creative and generative claims on the future of psychoanalysis. The essay goes over her early ideas about gender and sexuality as well as her keen feminist analyses of the everyday that continue to fuel my own standards as a feminist psychoanalytic theorist.

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Katie Gentile

Katie Gentile, Ph.D., is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Gender Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). She is the author of Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-destructive Survival (Routledge, 2006) and The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies in Psychoanalysis and Culture. She is co-editor of Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Cultures (book series) and a co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality (journal). She is faculty at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.