| Title | Courageous Drawings of Vigilant Ambiguities |
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| Contributor | Noreen O'Connor (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0167.1.26 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-queer-theory/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | O'Connor, Noreen |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2017-03-07 |
| Long abstract | My aim is to elucidate ways in which analysts have responded to the challenges of queer theorists. Working with the operative distinction of analyst and queer theorist I draw out their shared vigilance of reductive classifications of foundational aesthetic, epistemic, ontological, ethico-political specifications of subjec-tive/intersubjective relationships. Corbett succinctly expresses the clinical ambiance of con-temporary psychoanalysis in his first sentence describing the pivotal relationships between different models of analytic praxis and social critiques of normality. By “leaning” toward the gener-ative grounding soil of psychoanalytic originality practitioners explore ways in which fantasy inter-implicates the body-subject and thereby challenge dualisms of mind/body, language/think-ing. Psychoanalytic space is delineated as a place in which the enigmatic dynamism of transferences of fantasies and attributes highlight the courageous listening/speaking ethos present in the rigorous work of contributors to this book, namely, encounters. Analysis opens horizons of varying inter-subjective spaces and times for the emergence of individual speaking of a body-sub-ject in their relational complexity (Ellis 2008, 187; 2010, 65–66). |
| Page range | pp. 403–409 |
| Print length | 7 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |