Asymmetrical intimacies

Marcia Klotz

doi:10.1080/0950236X.2013.830822

Asymmetrical intimacies

Marcia Klotz

English

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This essay examines a structural similarity between psychoanalysis and sadomasochism as parallel practices that allow for the possibility of personal transformation to emerge through the constitution of asymmetrical intimate relations. Through close readings of the works of Adam Phillips and Emmanuel Ghent, the essay argues that psychoanalysis sometimes holds sadomasochism in contempt out of a need to disavow this structural similarity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	971-989
Number of pages	19
Journal	Textual Practice
Volume	27
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2013.830822
State	Published - Oct 1 2013

Keywords

Adam phillips
Emmanuel Ghent
Intimacy
Perversion
Psychoanalysis
Sadomasochism
Surrender

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Literature and Literary Theory

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