From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis

Desiring in the Real

Esther Rapoport

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Routledge
24 May 2019

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychology of gender

This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the challenges that can be presented by bisexual clients within a clinical setting.

Examining bisexuality through the lenses of Lacanian, Winnicottian and Relational psychoanalytic theories, the book outlines the ways in which the concept is at once both dated and yet still tremendously important. It includes case studies to explore the issue of widespread countertransference responses in the clinical setting, in addition to using both bisexual theory and empirical research on biphobia to comment on the social pressures facing bisexual men and women, and the resultant psychological effects.

Bisexual identities and practices have become increasingly visible in recent years, and this important book addresses the lack of critical reckoning with the topic within the psychoanalytic community. It will be of great interest to practicing psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well as to researchers across the fields of psychoanalysis and gender and sexuality studies.

By: Esther Rapoport
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9780367227500
ISBN 10: 0367227509
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 24 May 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: Bisexuality: the undead (m)other of psychoanalysis Chapter 2: Which traditional psychoanalytic meanings of bisexuality are worth keeping, and which had better go? Chapter 3: Object choice: choosing objects of psychoanalytic inquiry from among the different meanings of bisexuality Chapter 4: Bisexual subjectivity through the lenses of Lacanian, Object Relations and Relational theories Chapter 5: Epistemologies of the fence: meeting points between bisexual and contemporary psychoanalytic epistemologies Chapter 6: Bisexuality and Oedipus, a strained relationship: anti-Oedipal, post-Oedipal, and extra-Oedipal bisexualities Chapter 7: Abjection in action: bisexual patient and transference-countertransference dynamics Chapter 8: Women and men: overlapping experiences, different pressures Chapter 9: Masters of transformation: bisexual and transgender bodies and the problem of death

Esther Rapoport, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist maintaining a full-time practice in Tel Aviv. She is on the board of the Israeli Chapter of IARPP (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy) and is a candidate at the Academy for Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis in New Jersey.

Reviews for From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis: Desiring in the Real

"""This book is refreshing in that it pointedly critiques the erasure of bisexual desire in psychoanalytic texts and firmly inscribes bisexuality as an identity and practice in clinical theory. Rapoport’s cogent theoretical formulations and vivid clinical examples make it clear that psychoanalysis has not succeeded in theorizing bisexuals out of existence."" Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School, past editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society ""Rapoport eloquently asks us to consider the centrality of bisexuality to our theoretical knowledges – and lived experiences – of the sexual, the erotic, the intimate. Long misunderstood, bisexuality is both a potential out of which narrower experiences of sexuality and gender are conditioned and a particular form of desire can take. What kind of healing may occur if we recognize a bi-erotic subjectivity? Desiring will transform how we understand not just bisexuality but sex, sexuality, and gender."" Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor’s Professor of English and of Gender and Sexuality, UC, Irvine ""In this compelling book, Rapoport addresses the complicated meeting point between sex, gender, identity and subjectivity through the question of bisexuality. The book offers an important critique of identitarian approaches to sexuality while also insisting on a discourse of bisexuality that accounts for its subjective experience and representation. Rapoport places bisexuality – a signifier for unknowability – at the centre of interdisciplinary discussion in ways that widen its clinical and theoretical scope without settling its meaning."" Oren Gozlan, PsyD, ABPP, author of Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Perspective ""An exciting and sophisticated reassessment of the foundational psychoanalytic concept of bisexuality. Rapoport opens up new horizons, theoretical and clinical, of how psychoanalysis might revision bisexual subjectivity. A necessary and timely contribution."" Celia Brickman, PhD, author of Race in Psychoanalysis"