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I was asked to make these reflections on my dual identity and location as academic and psychoanalyst personal and informal, and so they are. I see them, in some ways, as both a continuation of and a contrast to our last meeting: my thinking was sparked by Paul Schwaber’s presentation, “The Pleasures of Mind,” in which Schwaber, a psychoanalyst and humanities professor, described the happy combination he has been able to make of psychoanalysis and literature. Here, I describe what I have found to be, from both sides, a not-so-happy combination.
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Chodorow, N.J. (2014). Why Is It Easy to Be a Psychoanalyst and a Feminist, But not a Psychoanalyst and a Social Scientist? Reflections of a Psychoanalytic Hybrid. In: Chancer, L., Andrews, J. (eds) The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304582_6
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