Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field

by Stephen Hartman (Editor)

Overview

Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field is a collection of reading and writing experiments inspired by the late feminist psychoanalyst Muriel Dimen.

Each of the six projects that comprise this volume explores a stylistic and thematic manner of reading and responding to Dimen’s work, challenging the field to write outside the standardized edition, and covering a remarkable breadth of essential analytic topics, such as sex, gender, money, love and hate, and boundary violations. As an homage to Dimen’s quest to engage the personal and the political in the author’s craft, and in collaboration with Dimen’s endeavour to foster revolution across the psychosocial landscape that renders psychoanalysis its field, the authors offer readers a wild analysis of reading and writing.

Providing a clear introduction to and exploration of Muriel Dimen’s groundbreaking work, this book will prove essential for scholars of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and gender studies, as well as anyone seeking to understand Dimen’s influence on psychoanalytic practice today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032370873
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/16/2023
Series:	Relational Perspectives Book Series
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen Hartman is an Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a former editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and NYU, and author of 40 articles and book chapters that explore the interface of technology and psychoanalysis through a psychosocial lens. Stephen practises in San Francisco and New York. His road bike and yoga mat are parked in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Virginia Goldner Among Us: Reading and Writing with Muriel Dimen Project One: Politically Correct / Politically Incorrect - Redux and Revise 1. Project One, Editor's Note 2. Politically Correct? Politically Incorrect? 3. To Capture the Frenzied Politically In/Correct? 4. Ela 5. Note 6. In Muriel Dimen's Footsteps - Five Notes on the Politically Correct and Politically Coerced in Current Israeli Contexts 7. Note 8. Note 9. Stars and Stripes Forever 10. Making Life Accessible: A Note From the Suicidal to Society 11. The Limitations of White Liberal Discourse: Political Correctness as Dual Defense 12. The Unresolved Questions Muriel Dimen Helped me Raise 13. On Political Correctness: A Plea for an Intersectional Frame 14. The Political Incorrectness of Feminism in the Wake of Calls for Decolonization in South Africa 15. The Politically Correct and Incorrectness of Intersectionality in Feminist Discourse 16. Bring Back the Curbs on Political Incorrectness Project Two: On Money, Love, and Hate 1. Project Two, Editor's Note 2. On Money, Love, and Hate: Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis 3. Good Night, See You Next Week 4. The Empty Platter Project Three: Talking about Sexuality and Suffering or the Eew! Factor: What's a Nice Vanilla Analyst to Do? 1. Project Three, Editor's Note 2. Sexuality and Suffering, Or the Eew! Factor 3. What's a Nice Vanilla Analyst to Do? An Intergenerational Conversation on Muriel Dimen's "The Eew Factor" Project Four: Wild Times / Wild Analysis / Wild Revolution 1. Project Four, Editor's Note 2. Inside the Revolution: Power, Sex, and Technique in Freud's "'Wild Analysis'" 3. The Wild, The Revolution, The Abject Social Imaginary, The Racialized Psychoanalytic Setting Project Five: Rotten Apples - Talking about It/Them/Us 1. Project Five, Editor's Note 2. Rotten Apples and Ambivalence: Sexual Boundary Violations through a Psychocultural Lens 3. Paradise Lost: What Is Most Dangerous About Our Method - Muriel Dimen's 'Rotten Apples and Ambivalence': Sexual Boundary Violations Through a Psychocultural Lens 4. No Sex, Please. We're Psychoanalysts Project Six: Of Ghosts and Groups 1. Project Six, Editor's Note 2. Ghosts and the Sexual Boundary Violation: The Limits of an Idea Afterword

Editorial Reviews

‘Bringing together six of the most provocative of Muriel Dimen’s essays, Hartman wisely and playfully frames each with a team of invited commentaries that underscore Dimen’s unique way of mixing theory building, self-reflection, and political aims to enliven the psychoanalytic field. The commentaries form a diverse set of interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international and intersectionally informed writers respond to Dimen’s call for a wild practice, a revolutionizing form of psychoanalytic reasoning that does not lose sight of collective concerns of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. Reading with Muriel Dimen / Writing with Muriel Dimen is a real treat: a brilliant and passionate conversation in which Muriel’s vision and voice are given to us fresh with insight for these times.’ 

Patricia Ticineto Clough, professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, psychoanalyst, and author of The User Unconscious

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