MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2010-2011
Between the Familiar and the Stranger:
Attachment, Agency and Desire
Jill Gentile, PhD
In this paper, I will explore the idea that relationships of attachment
security are simultaneously relationships of mutual desire. From this lens, separation and reunion behavior become increasingly psychologically charged: Infant and mother as well as patient and analyst, must revisit their willingness to expose their desire in each encounter. By recognizing that personal agency is vital to both healthy attachment and romantic desire, we can begin to appreciate the dawning of romantic desire not so much as promoting separation-individuation as we typically conceive, but as exerting a gravitational pull to revisit an original love – but one that is now erotically reconceived.
Friday, March 4, 2011
8:00 PM
Jill Gentile, PhD is faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis,
Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; and is on the editorial board of the International Journal for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. She has published several essays on developmental phenomenology and semiotics that explore the evolution of personal agency, intersubjectivity, and the relationship between subjective life and reality.
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