@article{Sweetnam, author = {Sweetnam, Annie}, title = {Patients' unconscious plans for solving their problems}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 327-348.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 327-348.}, abstract = {A gendered person lives in and creates a gendered body. Through the sexual life of the couple, two gendered bodies come together. In this paper, I draw on case material to illustrate how a multitude of sensations associated with what it feels like to be a man or a woman is aroused, affirmed, and created as one dimension of sexual experience. I suggest that these gender sensations may be organized through the three psychological positions - autistic-contiguous, paranoid-schizoid, and depressive. The movement among all three positions gives different shapes to sensory-based gender experience - each position making its own unique contributions to the qualities of what it feels like to be a man or a woman. In one case, I consider the possibility that gender transformation occurred through an unconscious intersubjective erotic third - the body of the couple - created between the patient and her husband.}, language = {en} } @article{Sweetnam, author = {Sweetnam, Annie}, title = {Performativity, transsexualism, and benevolent psychopathology some psychoanalytic reflections on postmodernist views of sexuality}, series = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 363-370.}, journal = {Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 09 (1999), pp. 363-370.}, language = {en} }