“The Queering of the Oedipus Complex”: A Response to Diane Elise and Noah S. Glassman

Jody Messler Davies, Ph.D., was Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues from 1998 to 2008. She is Faculty and Supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Founding Vice President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; Founding Board Member of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies; faculty member National Institute for the Psychotherapies; the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. She is coauthor of Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, and author of many papers on trauma and dissociation, a multiple self state model of mind, erotic transference and countertransference, the Oedipus complex, and the termination process.
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