Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D.

Teaching Faculty & Clinical Consultant | Relational Track

Education

B.A. 1967, University of Wisconsin
M.A. 1971, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Ph.D. 1978, New York University

Areas of Research/Interest

  • Intersubjectivity
  • The analyst's subjectivity in enactment and impasse
  • Intergroup dialogue and witnessing

Publications

Books

The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination. New York:  Pantheon Books, 1988.  
      (German edition, 1990; Italian, 1991; French, 1992; Spanish, 1996; Japanese, 1997)

Like Subjects, Love Objects:  Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference. Yale University Press. 1995. 
      (German, 1993; Italian, 1996; Spanish, 1997)

Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis.  Routledge, 1998.


Recent Articles

Beyond Doer and Done To: An Intersubjective View of Thirdness.  Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXXIII, January 2004.

The Riddle of Sex. Irene Matthis ed. Dialogues on Sexuality, Gender and Psychoanalysis. Karnac, 2004.

From Many into One: Attention, Energy and the Containing of Multitudes. Psychoanal. Dial 15: 185-201. 2005.

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).  Int. J. Pyscho-Anal., 90:441-450. Response 457-462.  2009.

Can We Recognize Each Other? Response to Donna Orange. Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol. 5: 244-256. 2010.

Where’s the Gap and What’s the Difference?: The Relational View of intersubjectivity, Multipe Selves, and Enactments. Contemp. Psychoanal. 46:112-119. 2010.

Facing Reality Together Discussion: With Culture in Mind: The Social Third.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality 12:27-36. 2011.