Jessica Benjamin’s scientific contributions

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Two-Way Streets: Recognition of Difference and the Intersubjective Third
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Jessica Benjamin

jessica benjamin is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City who also teaches and supervises at the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis. She is the author of The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminisms, and the Problem of Domination (Pantheon, 1988), Like Subjects, Love Objects (Yale University Press, 1995), and Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1998). Her current work is on the problem of acknowledgment of personal and social trauma.

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... Benjamin argues that dyads in various human interactions, such as mother-infant or therapist-patient relationships, mutually influence and shape each other. She describes this dynamic as "two-way streets" (Benjamin, 2004(Benjamin, , 2006. This perspective aligns with other proponents of relational-intersubjective psychoanalysis (e.g., BCPSG, 2010;Beebe & Lachmann, 2002Mitchell, 1988;Stolorow, Brandchaft, & Atwood, 1987;Stolorow & Atwood, 1992), reflecting a view akin to "two-person psychology." ...

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Can we recognize each other? Benjamin's intersubjective recognition theory and its contributions
Two-Way Streets: Recognition of Difference and the Intersubjective Third
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