Analytic Eroticism: Commentary on Schoen’s “Erotic Entanglements”

Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; a Training Analyst, International Psychoanalytic Association, and has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Her over 40 psychoanalytic publications include journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects. Elise’s 2019 book with Routledge, Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field – featured in a New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast, August, 2024– expands her work in innovative ways and presents her contemporary thinking on erotic life in psychoanalysis. Her two most recent publications, Creative becoming: Response to Palmer’s “Aesthetic position” and The sounds of silence: Embodied registers, erotic reverie, emphasize the role of libidinal vitality in clinical treatment. She is in private practice in Oakland, California.