TY - JOUR A1 - Shabad, Peter T1 - Beyond/outside gender dichotomies – introduction new forms of constituting subjectivity and difference JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 481-494. N2 - An underlying premise of this paper is that human beings actively and purposefully impose meanings on their experiences of psychic injury and that these meanings then have important implications for character development. Specifically, the paper examines how individuals, in defensive reaction to psychic injury, may repress their >impossible-to-fulfill< wishes, only to find those wishes eventually reborn as needs. In this way, a person's oppressive cruelty to his own wishes gives rise to resentment, indignation, and entitlement, which, in turn, fuel the experience of need. While wish implicitly communicates a request to receive from another, need, with its vicissitudes of demand and urgency, may do violence to the free social discourse of giving and receiving. The interpersonal field of give-and-take may be so constrained by the circular compulsivity of mandated giving and entitled needfulness that it is emptied of any spontaneous desire. The differential impact of communicating needs and wishes on the wider social contract – of which psychotherapy is an influential constituent – is then addressed. The paper then discusses how need and entitlement may be manifested in the transference along a passivity-activity dimension and thus illuminate the theme of responsibility for the treatment. Finally, the view of need as an entitled demand for gratification is contrasted with a view of need as a fervent wish for recognition in conjunction with the process of mourning. Mourning is viewed as a process of reintegrating impossible-to-fulfill wishes for >what could have been< and relinquishing the necessity of their fulfillment. Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Shabad, Peter T1 - Blowin' in the Wind – Considering the Impact of >Inadvertent Touch<. Commentary on Paper by Graham Bass JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 03 (1993), pp. 523-533. Y1 - 1993 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Shabad, Peter T1 - Review essay Symposium on Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Psychotic anxieties and containment: A personal account of an analysis with Winnicott by Margaret Little JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 703-709. N2 - In this commentary, I discuss Anthony Bass's humane, courageous article about the unconscious connection between analyst and analysand. His focus on the meeting of unconscious minds lends a refreshingly democratic tilt to the treatment relationship. His primary emphasis on the unconscious, however, seems to de-emphasize the vital role of consciousness and its capacity to engage the revelations of the unconscious. Similarly, Bass's theoretical focus on a fundamental underlying unity, though of great significance, seems to minimize the importance of separateness and the fact that the analyst and analysand have discrepant experiences. Bass's treatment of Ralph, a patient with terminal cancer, highlights the differences in the experiences of both participants as well as the underlying human frailties they have in common. In this light, I suggest that Ralph's relationship with Bass enabled him to >live before dying,< to separate and gain a sense of integrity before returning to the whole. Y1 - 2001 ER -