I Have Been Trying to Get Them to Respond to Me: Sexuality and Agency in Psychoanalysis

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dc.contributor.authorSlavin, Jonathan H.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:55:08Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:55:08Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractPsychoanalytic theory has seen many changes in the past 100years. But in the process, sexuality, as the centerpiece of our understanding of human motivation and conflict, seems to have gotten lost. As they did a century ago, clinicians today deal with sexual transferences and countertransferences. And issues of gender and sexual orientation are widely discussed. Yet, across most current theoretical perspectives, nothing compels us to focus on sexuality, as such, in the way that was once absolutely essential. During the same period, psychoanalytic approaches have consistently been concerned with questions of personal agency, i.e., its disruption in development and restoration in treatment. Indeed, the aim of treatment was traditionally understood as enabling patients to repossess their experience of themselves as agents in relation to their own disowned motives, affects, and drives (where id was, there shall ego be). In contemporary interpersonal, intersubjective, and relational perspectives, the issue of agency takes on even more central significance. This article explores how these two seemingly different conceptual and developmental frameworks-sexuality as a function of mind, and agency as a derivative of relational experience-may be compatible. Here, I examine the relationship of sexuality and the experience of agency in parent-child and analyst-patient relationships, and suggest that sexuality as such may yet have a central role in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and in our understanding of the basic nature of psychic functioning.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00107530.2015.1118675
dc.identifier.endpage20en_US
dc.identifier.issn0010-7530
dc.identifier.issn2330-9091
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2015.1118675
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8731
dc.identifier.volume52en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000372931400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofContemporary Psychoanalysisen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectSexuality, Agency, Relational, Libido, Sexual Fingerprinten_US
dc.subjectReflectionsen_US
dc.subjectLoveen_US
dc.titleI Have Been Trying to Get Them to Respond to Me: Sexuality and Agency in Psychoanalysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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