Beyond Doer and Done to: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third

by Jessica Benjamin

Book Overview

In Beyond Doer and Done To, Jessica Benjamin, author of the path-breaking Bonds of Love, expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of doer and done to. Her innovative theory charts the growth of the Third in early development through the movement between recognition and breakdown, and shows how it parallels the enactments in the psychoanalytic relationship. Benjamin's recognition theory illuminates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138218421
• ISBN13: 9781138218420
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"