Beyond Doer and Done to

In Beyond Doer and Done To, Jessica Benjamin, author of the path-breaking Bonds of Love, expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of "doer and done to." Her innovative theory charts the growth of the Third in early development through the movement between recognition and breakdown, and shows how it parallels the enactments in the psychoanalytic relationship. Benjamin’s recognition theory illuminates the radical potential of acknowledgment in healing both individual and social trauma, in creating relational repair in the transformational space of thirdness. Benjamin’s unique formulations of intersubjectivity make essential reading for both psychoanalytic therapists and theorists in the humanities and social sciences.

• Dramatic Dialogue (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
• The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & the Problem of Domination
• Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
• Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
• De-Idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
• Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)
• Like Subjects, Love Objects: Essays on Recognition and Sexual Difference
• Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Second Edition: PDM-2
• Relational Freedom (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)
• The Power of Phenomenology: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives