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The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & the Problem of Domination

by Jessica Benjamin · 1988

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Why do people willingly accept authority, and even take pleasure in being dominated by others? Why do domination and submission appear so often in intimate life, and why do men and women find it so hard to meet as equals, falling back into the roles of master and servant? Drawing on psychoanalysis and feminist thought, the psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin argues that domination is a psychological process that binds both partners in a shared complicity. She traces how this pattern shapes family life, public institutions and sexual relations, even when people consciously believe in equality and freedom.

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