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Jessica Benjamin

Psychology

#131

World Rank

#220

Historical Rank

#93

USA Rank

Psychoanalysis

#5

World Rank

#21

Historical Rank

#2

USA Rank

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PhD Psychology New York University
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According to Wikipedia, Jessica Benjamin is a psychoanalyst known for her contributions to psychoanalysis and social thought. She is currently a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City where she is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. Jessica Benjamin is one of the original contributors to the fields of relational psychoanalysis, theories of intersubjectivity, and gender studies and feminism as it relates to psychoanalysis and society. She is known for her ideas about recognition in both human development and the sociopolitical arena.

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Jessica Benjamin's Published Works

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Published Works

The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination (1988) (1439)
Beyond doer and done to: an intersubjective view of thirdness. (2004) (964)
Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference (1995) (484)
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis (1997) (473)
The Bonds Of Love (1988) (455)
An outline of intersubjectivity : the development of recognition (1990) (328)
Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys (2007) (241)
RECOGNITION and DESTRUCTION : An Outline of Intersubjectivity (2006) (215)
A relational psychoanalysis perspective on the necessity of acknowledging failure in order to restore the facilitating and containing features of the intersubjective relationship (the shared third) (2009) (133)
The Bonds of Love: Rational Violence and Erotic Domination (1980) (88)
A Desire of One’s Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space (1986) (86)
Father and daughter: Identification with difference—a contribution to gender heterodoxy (1991) (84)
Beyond Doer and Done to: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third (2017) (68)
Two-Way Streets: Recognition of Difference and the Intersubjective Third (2006) (63)
Male bodies : psychoanalyzing the white terror (1989) (59)
Sameness and difference: Toward an “overinclusive” model of gender development (1995) (59)
Authority and the Family Revisited: Or, a World without Fathers? (1978) (58)
The Rhythm of Recognition Comments on the Work of Louis Sander (2002) (45)
The End of Internalization: Adorno's Social Psychology (1977) (44)
Intersubjective Distinctions: Subjects and Persons, Recognitions and Breakdowns: Commentary on Paper by Gerhardt, Sweetnam, and Borton (2000) (38)
The ‘too muchness’ of excitement: Sexuality in light of excess, attachment and affect regulation (2015) (34)
Is Politics the Last Taboo in Psychoanalysis? (2004) (32)
What angel would hear me?: The erotics of transference (1994) (30)
Response to Commentaries by Mitchell and by Butler (2000) (29)
From Many into One: Attention, Energy, and the Containing of Multitudes (2005) (27)
Commentary on irwin z. hoffman's discussion: “Toward a social‐constructivist view of the psychoanalytic situation”; (1991) (26)
Non-violence as respect for all suffering: Thoughts inspired by Eyad El Sarraj (2016) (24)
Creating an Intersubjective Reality: Commentary on Paper by Arnold Rothstein (2005) (23)
Commentary on papers by tansey, davies, and hirsch (1994) (23)
Where's the Gap and What's the Difference? (2010) (21)
Simone de Beauvoir: An Interview (1979) (19)
Psychoanalysis as a vocation (1997) (18)
Terror and Guilt: Beyond Them and Us (2002) (16)
Can We Recognize Each Other? Response to Donna Orange (2010) (15)
Facing Reality Together Discussion: With Culture in Mind: The Social Third (2011) (15)
Acknowledgment of Collective Trauma in Light of Dissociation and Dehumanization (2011) (15)
Escape from the Hall of Mirrors: Commentary on Paper by Jody Messler Davies (2004) (13)
The Bonds of Love: Looking Backward (2013) (11)
The Decline of the Oedipus Complex (1987) (10)
Thinking Together, Differently: Thoughts on Bromberg and Intersubjectivity (2013) (9)
Crash: What We Do When We Cannot Touch: Commentary on Paper by Meira Likierman (2006) (9)
Reply to Schwartz (1992) (9)
V. The Question of Sexual Difference (2002) (7)
“The Wolf's Dictionary”: Confronting the Triumph of a Predatory World View (2017) (7)
Finding the way out commentary on papers by Malcolm Owen Slavin and Daniel Kriegman and by Philip A. Ringstrom (1998) (6)
A note on the dialectic commentary on paper by Bruce E. Reis (1999) (6)
Revisiting the riddle of sex: an intersubjective view of masculinity and femininity. (2004) (6)
Origins of American Health Insurance (2017) (5)
Letter to Lester Olson (2000) (4)
Masculinity, Complex: A Historical Take (2015) (4)
An Examination Of Trust In Contemporary American Society (2006) (4)
Hoffman's Ritual and Spontaneity: Three Reviews and a Response (1999) (4)
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Knowledge. (1990) (4)
Response to Aron and Atlas: Cooking Up a Storm—Together (2015) (3)
Shame and Sexual Politics (1982) (3)
Mutual vulnerability: An ethic of clinical practice (2016) (2020) (2)
The Shadow of the Other Subject: Intersubjectivity and Feminist Theory (2019) (2)
“Moving Beyond Violence:”: What We Learn from Two Former Combatants about the Transition from Aggression to Recognition (2016) (2)
Acknowledgment, Harming, and Political Trauma: Reflections After the Plague Year (2021) (2)
The Omnipotent Mother: (2021) (2)
Land Acquisitions in Africa: A Return to Franz Fanon? (2010) (2)
Acknowledging the Other’s Suffering: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Trauma in Israel/Palestine (2015) (2)
Germans, Leftists, Jews (1984) (1)
Response (2009) (1)
How Therapy With Victims of Political Trauma Repairs the Third—Commentary on Gómez and Kovalskys’s Work in the Context of Postdictatorship Chile (2018) (1)
Andy Rabinbach as an Inspiration for a Work of Feminist Theory (2012) (1)
Our appointment in Thebes : Acknowledgment, the failed witness and fear of harming (2017) (1)
Surrender and self-discovery (2018) (1)
Reflections and directions (2018) (1)
Beyond “Only one can live” : Witnessing, acknowledgment and the moral Third (2017) (0)
Transformations in thirdness : Mutual recognition, vulnerability and asymmetry (2017) (0)
Intersubjectivity, Recognition and the Third (2012) (0)
Commentary on the struggle over abortion in the USA (2022) (0)
Enactment, acknowledgement, and the bearing of badness (2018) (0)
Taking It Personally (2022) (0)
The Other Woman (2020) (0)
Victimology (2016) (0)
Comment on “When Interpretation Masquerades as Explanation” (1986) (0)
American Psychoanalytic Feminism late twentieth century : potential and limitations of the conceptual contributions of (2016) (0)
Paradox and play : The uses of enactment (2017) (0)
Tilting Back Toward Development: Response to Steven Cooper’s “Donald Winnicott and Stephen Mitchell’s Developmental Tilt Hypothesis Reconsidered” (2021) (0)
The Struggle for Recognition: Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, (2008) (0)
1. Brown Bag Lunch Seminar by Yothin Jinjarak: Trade Gravity for Economies in Transition: How Remotely Are Central Asia and South Asia in Comparison to Southeast Asia? was held at ADBI, 10 January. (Read more) (2014) (0)
Jessica Benjamin Discusses Her Work with Galit Atlas (2022) (0)
Fit to Be Untied (1989) (0)
Psychoanalytic profiles: Jessica Benjamin: (302862005-010) (2003) (0)
The emotional core of fascism in its most virulent psychic manifestations (1989) 1 (2020) (0)
"Special Section: Contemporary structural psychoanalysis and relational psychoanalysis": Commentary. (1995) (0)
[Father and daughter: identifying with difference. A contribution to sexual heterodoxy]. (1992) (0)
Book Review:In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development Carol Gilligan (1983) (0)
An Other take on the riddle of sex : Excess, affect and gender complementarity (2017) (0)
Introduction : Recognition, intersubjectivity and the Third (2017) (0)
Playing at the edge : Negation, recognition and the lawful world (2017) (0)

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