1st Edition
The Narration of Desire Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences
- Words and Stories in Narrative Spaces
- When the Story Doesn't Flow
II. Maternal Erotic Transferences and Countertransference
- The Maternal Erotic Transference
- The Maternal Erotic Countertransference
- The Birth of Desire
III. Perversions: Derangements of Desire
- Perverse Narratives: The Threat of New Narratives of Desire
- A "Horrible Dry Hollow": Lost in Arid Deadspace
IV. Permutations and Transformations Related to Gender
- Erotic Terror in Men: Fear of the Early Maternal Erotic Transference
- Where's Poppa? The Appearance of Paternal Transferences in the Face of Early Maternal Transferences
- Oedipus and the Spruce Goose: A Narration of An Oedipal Transition
Biography
Harriet K. Wrye, Judith K. Welles
"I believe that this work successfully addresses a very important issue in infant development, in psychoanalytic theory, and in clinical practice - the infant's sense of proper entitlement to an appropriate erotic launching of his or her career as a human being - and of its being candidly validated in the trial countersubjective response in that foremost of existential 'rewrites,' psychoanalysis itself."
- James S. Grotstein, M.D., American Journal of Psychotherapy
"With their candid and vividly detailed clinical accounts, Wrye and Welles illustrate how the coauthored story of transference/countertransference permit the rich history of a patient's love narrative to be retrieved and reviewed. The Narration of Desire is an intensely personal, highly instructive study of the erotic roots of conscious awareness."
- Owen Renik, M.D., San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute
“I believe Wrye and Welles have made a major contribution to the field. They establish to an impressively detailed degree the necessity of attending to communications transmitted through bodily feelings and sensations, a topic only now fully coming into its own”
- Ethel Person, M.D., JAPA
