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Benjamin, J. (1993). The Story of I: Perspectives on Women's Subjectivity. Canadian J. Psychoanal., 1:79-95.

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(1993). Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1:79-95

The Story of I: Perspectives on Women's Subjectivity

Jessica Benjamin Author Information

In this paper I wish to consider some of the ways in which maternal and paternal identifications figure in women's development, especially the aspects of identification we are able to see evolving in the analysis and the transference I have referred to the Story of I, of course, as a play on The Story of O. Putting “I” in the place of “O” is meant to evoke concern with women's subjectivity — with being for herself as a sexual subject rather than an object I am going to present two cases, and the logic of this presentation is going to highlight certain contrasts. One story, which I have discussed elsewhere, highlights the evolution of paternal identification in the transference and the integration of what I call being a subject of desire It is actually about a piece of work with idealization The other story is different not only because it emphasizes the evolution of maternal elements but because this evolution works through a mode different from identifi

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