COWAP Revisiting the Maternal: Maternal Eroticism in the Analytic Setting
COWAP Revisiting the Maternal: Maternal Eroticism in the Analytic Setting
with Andrea Celenza The analyst’s vitalizing activity, as reflected in the analyst’s invitation to be, in the offer to take in the analyst as an object of love, to receive what the analyst transmits, and the taking in of other components implicit through nonverbal means (through gaze and displaced touch) are all components of a healthy analytic process. These are all aspects of healthy maternal eroticism as well. […]