Acknowledgments • vii
Introduction • 3
1. The First Bond • 11
2. Master and Slave • 51
3. Woman's Desire • 85
4. The Oedipal Riddle • 133
5. Gender and Domination • 183
6. Conclusion • 219
Bibliography • 225
Notes • 245
Index • 295
JESSICA BENJAMIN is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City and is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her highly acclaimed articles have been published in feminist and psychoanalytic journals and are widely anthologized.
"A clear, closely argued study of power and desire, which succeeds
in making psychic life a social reality."
—Richard Sennett, author of The Fall of Public Man
"An important book . . . an amazingly lucid account of the way
power all too often becomes intertwined with gender."
—Ethel Person, The New York Times Book Review
"Many of us have long admired Jessica Benjamin's intricate
rethinking of social theory and psychoanalytic theory. The Bonds of
Love gives us Benjamin at her best, and psychoanalytic social
theory at its best, as she demonstrates brilliantly the complex
intertwining of familial, gender, and social domination."
—Nancy Chodorow, author of The Reproduction of Mothering
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