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Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen Experiments in Theorizing a Field
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.
Foreword
Virginia Goldner
Part One: Among Us: Reading and Writing with Muriel Dimen
Stephen Hartman
Part Two: Politically Correct / Politically Incorrect - Redux and Revise
1. Editor's Note
Stephen Hartman
2. Politically Correct? Politically Incorrect?
Muriel Dimen
3. To Capture the Frenzied Politically In/Correct?
Katie Gentile
4. ELA
Almas Merchant
5. Note
Bettina Von Lieres
6. In Muriel Dimen's Footsteps - Five Notes on the Politically Correct and Politically Coerced in Current Israeli Contexts
Chana Ullman
7. Note
Fiona Anciano
8. Note
Griffin Hansbury
9. Stars and Stripes Forever
Joanna Wheller
10. Making Life Accessible: A Note From the Suicidal to Society
J. R. Latham
11. The Limitations of White Liberal Discourse: Political Correctness as Dual Defense
Lara Sheehi
12. The Unresolved Questions Muriel Dimen Helped me Raise
Laura Trajber Waisbich
13. On Political Correctness: A Plea for an Intersectional Frame
Lynne Layton
14. The Political Incorrectness of Feminism in the Wake of Calls for Decolonization in South Africa
Nobukhosi Ngwenya
15. The Politically Correct and Incorrectness of Intersectionality in Feminist Discourse
Shiri Raz
16. Bring Back the Curbs on Political Incorrectness
Shylashri Shankar
Part Three: On Money, Love, and Hate
1. Editor's Note
Stephen Hartman
2. On Money, Love, and Hate: Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis
Muriel Dimen
3. Good Night, See You Next Week
June Lee Kwon
4. The Empty Platter
Jeff Jackson
Part Four: Talking about Sexuality and Suffering or the Eew! Factor: What's a Nice Vanilla Analyst to Do?
1. Editor's Note
Stephen Hartman
2. Sexuality and Suffering, Or the Eew! Factor
Muriel Dimen
3. What's a Nice Vanilla Analyst to Do? An Intergenerational Conversation on Muriel Dimen's "The Eew Factor"
Lisa Buchberg and Emma Kaywin
Part Five: Wild Times / Wild Analysis / Wild Revolution
1. Editor's Note
Stephen Hartman
2. Inside the Revolution: Power, Sex, and Technique in Freud's "'Wild Analysis'"
Muriel Dimen
3. The Wild, The Revolution, The Abject Social Imaginary, The Racialized Psychoanalytic Setting
Daniel G. Butler and Ken Corbett
Part Six: Rotten Apples - Talking about It/Them/Us
1. Editor's Note
Stephen Hartman
2. Rotten Apples and Ambivalence: Sexual Boundary Violations through a Psychocultural Lens
Muriel Dimen
3. Paradise Lost: What Is Most Dangerous About Our Method - Muriel Dimen's 'Rotten Apples and Ambivalence': Sexual Boundary Violations Through a Psychocultural Lens
Velleda C. Ceccoli
4. No Sex, Please. We're Psychoanalysts
Ann Pellegrini
Part Seven: Of Ghosts and Groups
1. Editor's Note
Stephen Hartman
2. Ghosts and the Sexual Boundary Violation: The Limits of an Idea
Muriel Dimen and LOC 148: Francisco Gonzalez, Orna Guralnik, Stephen Hartman, Julie Leavitt, Jade McGleughlin, and Eyal Rozmarin
Part Eight: Afterword
Adrienne Harris
Biography
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.
‘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
