Transference, Love, Being : Essential Essays from the Field (Paperback)

Part I: Transference 1. Transference, real or unreal 2. Paradox in the psychoanalytic stance 3. The historically fetishized couch 4. Changes in the frame 5. Safety, danger, couch, chair 6. The analyst as objectified other 7. The analyst as subjective object 8. The analyst as subject 9. Where is psychoanalysis? 10. The nature of boundaries 11. Sexual boundary violations and theoretical orientation 12. The inadvertent pluralist 13. The art of the boundary 14. Stance and attentional set in analytic listening 15. Directed attentional set 16. Diffuse attentional set 17. Stance, set, transference Part II: Love 18. The erotic field 19. The maternal erotic transference 20. From a foreclosed void to usable space 21. The fate of feminine signifiers 22. Le visage de la mere 23. Identificatory love and object love 24. The promise that seduces desire25. The phenomenal experience of touch 26. Embodied countertransference 27. What, where ishome Part III: Being 28. The unbearable multiplicity of experience 29. On empathic resonance 30. Embodiment and the perversion of desire 31. Perversion and its qualities of being 32. Transitional perverse scenarios 33. Psychic positions, healthy perverse 34. Reverie, countertransference, retranscription 35. Mutual influence in contemporary film 36. To be in it with 37. "Yes and ..." dreams