Main description:

* Builds on Celenza's well-regarded previous book and work *covers rarely-addressed aspects of the erotic in psychoanalytic work * provides clinical insights in short, focused chapters

Contents:

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 desire, 25. The phenomenal experience of touch, 26. Embodied countertransference, 27. What, where is home, 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