Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen Experiments in Theorizing a Field

Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field is a collection of reading and writing experiments inspired by the late feminist psychoanalyst Muriel Dimen. Each of the six projects that comprise this volume explores a stylistic and thematic manner of reading and responding to Dimen’s work, challenging the field to write outside the standardized edition, and covering a remarkable breadth of essential analytic topics, such as sex, gender, money, love and hate, and boundary violations. As an homage to Dimen’s quest to engage the personal and the political in the author’s craft, and in collaboration with Dimen’s endeavour to foster revolution across the psychosocial landscape that renders psychoanalysis its field, the authors offer readers a wild analysis of reading and writing. Providing a clear introduction to and exploration of Muriel Dimen’s groundbreaking work, this book will prove essential for scholars of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and gender studies, as well as anyone seeking to understand Dimen’s influence on psychoanalytic practice today.

Foreword Virginia Goldner  Part One: Among Us: Reading and Writing with Muriel Dimen  Stephen Hartman Part Two: Politically Correct / Politically Incorrect - Redux and Revise  1. Editor's Note  Stephen Hartman 2. Politically Correct? Politically Incorrect?  Muriel Dimen 3. To Capture the Frenzied Politically In/Correct?  Katie Gentile  4. ELA Almas Merchant 5. Note  Bettina Von Lieres 6. In Muriel Dimen's Footsteps - Five Notes on the Politically Correct and Politically Coerced in Current Israeli Contexts  Chana Ullman 7. Note  Fiona Anciano 8. Note  Griffin Hansbury 9. Stars and Stripes Forever  Joanna Wheller 10. Making Life Accessible: A Note From the Suicidal to Society  J. R. Latham 11. The Limitations of White Liberal Discourse: Political Correctness as Dual Defense  Lara Sheehi 12. The Unresolved Questions Muriel Dimen Helped me Raise  Laura Trajber Waisbich 13. On Political Correctness: A Plea for an Intersectional Frame  Lynne Layton 14. The Political Incorrectness of Feminism in the Wake of Calls for Decolonization in South Africa  Nobukhosi Ngwenya 15. The Politically Correct and Incorrectness of Intersectionality in Feminist Discourse  Shiri Raz 16. Bring Back the Curbs on Political Incorrectness  Shylashri Shankar Part Three: On Money, Love, and Hate  1. Editor's Note  Stephen Hartman 2. On Money, Love, and Hate: Contradiction and Paradox in Psychoanalysis  Muriel Dimen 3. Good Night, See You Next Week  June Lee Kwon 4. The Empty Platter  Jeff Jackson Part Four: Talking about Sexuality and Suffering or the Eew! Factor: What's a Nice Vanilla Analyst to Do?  1. Editor's Note  Stephen Hartman 2. Sexuality and Suffering, Or the Eew! Factor  Muriel Dimen 3. What's a Nice Vanilla Analyst to Do? An Intergenerational Conversation on Muriel Dimen's "The Eew Factor"  Lisa Buchberg and Emma Kaywin Part Five: Wild Times / Wild Analysis / Wild Revolution  1. Editor's Note  Stephen Hartman 2. Inside the Revolution: Power, Sex, and Technique in Freud's "'Wild Analysis'"  Muriel Dimen 3. The Wild, The Revolution, The Abject Social Imaginary, The Racialized Psychoanalytic Setting  Daniel G. Butler and Ken Corbett Part Six: Rotten Apples - Talking about It/Them/Us  1. Editor's Note  Stephen Hartman 2. Rotten Apples and Ambivalence: Sexual Boundary Violations through a Psychocultural Lens  Muriel Dimen 3. Paradise Lost: What Is Most Dangerous About Our Method - Muriel Dimen's 'Rotten Apples and Ambivalence': Sexual Boundary Violations Through a Psychocultural Lens  Velleda C. Ceccoli 4. No Sex, Please. We're Psychoanalysts  Ann Pellegrini Part Seven: Of Ghosts and Groups  1. Editor's Note   Stephen Hartman 2. Ghosts and the Sexual Boundary Violation: The Limits of an Idea  Muriel Dimen and LOC 148: Francisco Gonzalez, Orna Guralnik, Stephen Hartman, Julie Leavitt, Jade McGleughlin, and Eyal Rozmarin Part Eight: Afterword Adrienne Harris

Stephen Hartman is an Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a former editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and NYU, and author of 40 articles and book chapters that explore the interface of technology and psychoanalysis through a psychosocial lens. Stephen practises in San Francisco and New York. His road bike and yoga mat are parked in Brooklyn.