1st Edition
Erotic Revelations Clinical applications and perverse scenarios
Introduction Transcending Binaries. Part I: Erotics Embodied: Varieties and Meanings of Erotic Transferences. Maternal Erotic Transferences and Merger Wishes. Maternal Erotic Transferences: Engaging the Mother Within. Erotic Transferences and the Role of Aggression. The Guilty Pleasure of Erotic Countertransference: Searching for Radial True. Erotic Countertransference Revelations. Part II: Perverse Scenarios Revisited. Perverse Female Scenarios: The Objectified Self. Sadomasochistic Relating: What’s Sex Got To Do With It? Fetishes, the Anal Universe and Other Fantasies of One Person Relating. Conclusion Positions of Subjectivity: The Ineluctable Construction of the Self.
Biography
Andrea Celenza is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She has authored numerous papers and two books on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is the recipient of several awards and is in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts.
"Andrea Celenza’s major work on sexual misconduct has become indispensable. Now she has written something broader, an original and scholarly linkage of ‘sexuality as sexuality’ to the wider issues of relationality and meaning with which many clinicians are more comfortable. As such, the book is much needed. Celenza never ducks the difficult issues for clinicians when experiencing and working with sexual pressures; she never resorts to trendy euphemisms or word games. The book will be appreciated by many kinds of therapy professionals, not just psychoanalysts (who will recognise an author at the height of her powers)."- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, UK
"In this provocative new contribution, Andrea Celenza courageously explores some of the most controversial areas in contemporary psychoanalysis. With detailed clinical examples she challenges the reader to think of eros, gender, and perverse scenarios in complex, multi-determined ways that transcend binary distinctions or reductive classical formulations. I highly recommend it to all psychoanalytically-oriented clinicians."- Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Author, Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting
