@article{Orbach, author = {Orbach, Suzie}, title = {Something Is Happening Here Thoughts and Clinical Material Regarding Multiplicity, Gender, and Touch in a Psychoanalytic Treatment}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 433-441.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 433-441.}, abstract = {This paper discusses the impulse to psychic and political splitting with its consequent political demonization of the other when emotional helplessness and fear cannot be metabolized. I argue that it is through an acceptance of our feelings of helplessness that we are in a position to experience the subjectivity of the other and to begin the process of political discourse.}, language = {en} }