Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue (New Library of Psychoanalysis)

__Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue__ clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings. The book takes the Freudian project into new grounds of clinical practice and theoretical formulations and contributes to a profound psychoanalytic understanding of sexuality. The object of pychoanalysis is psychosexuality, which is not, in the final analysis, determined by having a male or a female body, but by the unconscious phantasies that are reached __après coup__ through tracing the nuanced interplay of identifications as they are projected, enacted and experienced in the transference and the countertransference in the analytic encounter. Drawing on British and French Freudian and post-Freudian traditions, the book explores questions of love, transference and countertransference, sexual identity and gender to set out the latest clinical understanding of bisexuality, and includes chapters from influential French analysts available in English for the first time. __Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue__ will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars. Winner of the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Edited Book Prize for 2019! Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings. The book takes the Freudian project into new grounds of clinical practice and theoretical formulations and contributes to a profound psychoanalytic understanding of sexuality. The object of pychoanalysis is psychosexuality, which is not, in the final analysis, determined by having a male or a female body, but by the unconscious phantasies that are reached après coup through tracing the nuanced interplay of identifications as they are projected, enacted and experienced in the transference and the countertransference in the analytic encounter. Drawing on British and French Freudian and post-Freudian traditions, the book explores questions of love, transference and countertransference, sexual identity and gender to set out the latest clinical understanding of bisexuality, and includes chapters from influential French analysts available in English for the first time. Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars. Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings. The book takes the Freudian project into new grounds of clinical practice and theoretical formulations and contributes to a profound psychoanalytic understanding of sexuality. The object of psychoanalysis is psychosexuality, which is not, in the final analysis, determined by having a male or a female body, but by the unconscious phantasies that are reached après coup through tracing the nuanced interplay of identifications as they are projected, enacted and experienced in the transference and the countertransference in the analytic encounter. Drawing on British and French Freudian and post-Freudian traditions, the book explores questions of love, transference and countertransference, sexual identity and gender to set out the latest clinical understanding of bisexuality, and includes chapters from influential French analysts available in English for the first time. Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: a psychoanalytic understanding of bisexuality -- 1 The beautiful differences -- 2 Tell me whom you like best -- 3 The origin of psychoanalysis between bisexuality and transference -- 4 Love and melancholia in the analysis of women by women -- 5 From bisexuality to the feminine -- 6 On bisexuality: being born with two eyes -- 7 Stumbling blocks of the feminine, stumbling blocks of psychic bisexuality -- 8 Unconscious pacts and the bisexuality of the countertransference in the treatment -- 9 "No sex, please, we're British": some reflections on bisexuality in contemporary clinical theory -- 10 How to be both, by not being both: the articulation of psychic bisexuality within the analytic session -- 11 Alienating identifications and sexuality -- 12 The neuter gender -- 13 Bye-bye, sexuality -- Glossary -- References -- Index