1. Jessica Benjamin was born on 1946 and is a psychoanalyst known for her contributions to psychoanalysis and social thought.
14 Facts About Jessica Benjamin
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Jessica Benjamin is currently a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City where she is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies.
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Jessica Benjamin is one of the original contributors to the fields of relational psychoanalysis, theories of intersubjectivity, and gender studies and feminism as it relates to psychoanalysis and society.
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Jessica Benjamin is known for her ideas about recognition in both human development and the sociopolitical arena.
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Jessica Benjamin was born to a Jewish family and earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1967, and her MA from the University of Frankfurt in West Germany, where she studied Psychology, Sociology and Philosophy.
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Jessica Benjamin earned her PhD in Sociology from NYU in 1978.
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Jessica Benjamin received her psychoanalytic training from New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and engaged in post doc research on infancy with Dr Beatrice Beebe at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Jessica Benjamin is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
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Jessica Benjamin has made significant contributions to the concept of intersubjectivity in psychoanalysis.
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Jessica Benjamin argued that we accept and perpetuate relationships of domination not because of an inherent aggressive instinct, but the difficulty of recognizing the Other.
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Jessica Benjamin argues that traditional Freudian theories inevitably reproduce patriarchal gender relationships which are characterized by domination and submission, most notably reflected in the cultural polarity of male rationality and female vulnerability.
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Jessica Benjamin is considered to be one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last four decades.
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Jessica Benjamin is one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and is one of the first to introduce feminism and gender studies into psychoanalytic thought.
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In 2015, Jessica Benjamin received the Hans-Kilian-Award for her achievements in the fields of psychoanalysis, feminist psychology and the theory of intersubjective recognition.