1st Edition

Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis

By Janice S. Lieberman Copyright 2019
234 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Patients in psychoanalytic treatment present with a variety of problems that reflect contemporary cultural issues and values. Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body, and Gender in Psychoanalysis explores the effects of such societal changes on psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, covering topics such as greed, envy and deception, body narcissism, gender roles, and relationships.... Read more

Overview: Loss of Integrity in Contemporary Culture and Contemporary Psyche

Superego/ Character Issues: Deception, Greed and Envy

  1. Analyzing a New Superego: Greed and Envy in the Recent Age of Affluence
  2. Lies and Omissions in Psychoanalytic Treatment
  3. The Availability (and Responsibility) of the Analyst
  4. Construction Outside, Reconstruction Inside

Body, Skin, Gender

5. The Female Body

6. The Analyst as Reluctant Spectator

7. The Analyst’s Rush to Metaphor

8. Body Narcissism and Linguistic Attunement

9. Outrageous Women: the "Cleopatra Complex"

10. The Male Psyche: An Even Darker Continent

Relationships

11. Issues in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Single Females over Thirty

12. "Sex and the City" on the Couch

13. The Search for Love in a Digital Age

14. The Mediated Gaze

Superego, Gender and Body in Art

15. Violence Against Women in the Work of Women Artists

16. The Imposturous Artist Arshile Gorky

17. Pedophilic Themes in Balthus’ Works

18.Is Appropriation Creative? The Case of Richard Prince

Afterword

Biography

Janice S. Lieberman, PhD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City. She is the author of Body Talk: Looking and Being Looked at in Psychotherapy and served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is a Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies.