TY - JOUR A1 - Corbett, Ken T1 - Reply to commentary JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 775-786. Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Corbett, Ken T1 - Reply to Reviews by Cavell, Sorenson, and Smith JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 313-335. N2 - At both ends of the century, a border between the aberrant-marginal them and the ideal-central us has been constructed around and through the homosexual. I challenge the insufficiency of this characterization, so that we may learn more, not only about homosexuality, but also about the ways in which all human development is infused with an interplay between centrality and marginality. I argue that traditional developmental models are dominated by the normative logic of centrality, with limited accounting for the developmental necessity of marginality, whereas postmodern theories of subjectivity overvalue the potential of the margin and fail to account for the significance of similarity and coherence in human relations. I then use that criticism as a platform for proposing five quasi-axioms toward a new developmental model. Central to this new model, which employs constructs derived from chaos and systems theories, is the interplay of centrality and marginality in any given life. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Corbett, Ken T1 - Reply to Schwartz JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 347-355. N2 - In. Reply to Phillips and Fuss, I consider the developmental action of affinity – in particular, Winnicott's (1958) propositions regarding >ego-relatedness< and >happy play.< Then, in response to questions raised by Fuss, I explore the function of models as tools – and the difficulties we face in changing our developmental vocabulary. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Corbett, Ken T1 - The search for psychological models. Commentary on papers by Stephen Seligman and by Robin C. Silverman and Alicia F. Lieberman JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 14 (2004), pp. 457-474. N2 - The relational reach and psychotherapeutic action of comedy are examined in the opening phase of treatment with a man who had an early history of neglect and consequent neurotic isolation. Through the examination of a series of comedic enactments that cracked into the beginning phase of this treatment, comedy's animating force to defy neurotic gravity and aid in the reanimation of primal density is considered. The ways in which laughter opened into a maternal erotic transference – countertransference is further detailed, in conjunction with reflection aimed at the aggression of this comedic bond, including countertransference hate. Y1 - 2004 ER -