This book offers Dimen's classic take on psychosexuality, drawing on relational theory, feminism and postmodernism, with a new foreword by Virgina Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late Muriel Dimen and introducing a new audience to her profound legacy.

Muriel Dimen was Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at New York University, an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and an Executive Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Acknowledgements Foreword Prologue: A Personal Journey from Dualism to Multipliicity Part 1: The Story So Far: Psychoanalysts, Feminism and Politics 1. The Engagement Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Report from the Front 2. The Third Step: Freud, the Feminists, and Postmodernism Part 2: Mind, Body, Culture: Psychoanalytic Studies 3. On "Our Nature" or Sex and the Single Narrative 4. The Body as Rorschach 5. Between Lust and Libido: Sex, Psychoanalysis and the Moment Before 6. Deconstructing Difference: Gender, Splitting and Transitional Space Part 3: The Personal Is Political Is Theoretical: A Sampler 7. Power, Sexuality, and Intimacy 8. In the Zone of Ambivalence: A Feminist Journal of Competition 9. Perversion Is Us? Eight Notes Epilogue: Some Personal Conclusions