{"product_id":"the-enigma-of-desire-9781138789609","title":"The Enigma of Desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis, introduces new perspectives on desire and longing, in and outside of the analytic relationship.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThis exciting volume explores the known and unknown, ghosts and demons, sexuality and lust. Galit Atlas discusses the subjects of sex and desire and explores what she terms the Enigmatic and the Pragmatic aspects of sexuality, longing, female desire, sexual inhibition, pregnancy, parenthood and creativity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author focuses on the levels of communication that take place in the most intimate settings: between mothers and their babies; between lovers; in the unconscious bond of two people in the consulting room, where two individuals sit alone in one room, looking and listening, breathing and dreaming. Atlas examines the ways in which different languages, translations and integrations focus on birth, death, sexuality, and human bonds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Enigma of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e each chapter opens with\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClinically astute and theoretically provocative, The Enigma of Desire recaptures the realm of sexuality for relational psychoanalysis. Atlas offers an illuminating, original construction of sexuality as located in the tension between enigmatic and pragmatic dimensions, deftly putting into play the binaries of known and unknown, seen and unseen, internal and external as well as oedipal and pre-oedipal experiences of the body. Charged with the passionate intensity of early maternal experience that has often been desexualized, Atlas’s complex and creative narratives bring theoretical constructs to larger life while offering clinicians a model of sensitive, nuanced work. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJessica Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Supervisor and Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; author of Shadow of the Other.​\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Enigma of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e Galit Atlas challenges us to consider not only the \"pragmatic\" mother and infant of infant research, but also the enigmatic mother and infant, hidden, mysterious, unknown. \"… some things can be heard only from inside – not through the actual observed interaction … but rather in the enigmatic-unseen zones of the internal mind\" (p. 17). The co-creation and co-regulation of desire is a topic that deserves more attention in psychoanalysis. Galit Atlas offers us an outstanding statement. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeatrice Beebe,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Ph.D. Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians \u0026amp; Surgeons, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Desires, Mothers, and Others\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Enigmatic and Pragmatic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Ella: The Enigma of Desire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Ben and Leo: Excited Idiot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Danny: Ghosts and the Maternal Skin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Enigmatic Knowing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Celine: Breaks in Unity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Tomaz and Ron: The Enigmatic Language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Karen: Words and Silences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Galit: Sex, Lies, and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. The Unknown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Sex and the Kitchen: The Mystery of Female Desire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Jo, Simone, and Those We Don’t Yet Know: Three Pregnancies and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Sophie, Sarah: Dreams, Enactments, and the Enigmatic Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019525423447,"sku":"9781138789609","price":37.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138789609.jpg?v=1750780527","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-enigma-of-desire-9781138789609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}