Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and supervising faculty member at New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Studies Center in New York. She is author of the Routledge title Shadow of the Other.

Introduction: recognition, intersubjectivity and the Third

1. Beyond doer and done to: an intersubjective view of thirdness

2. Our appointment in Thebes: acknowledgment, the failed witness and fear of harming

3. Transformations in thirdness: mutual recognition, vulnerability and asymmetry

I. You've come a long way baby

II. Responsibility, vulnerability and the analyst's surrender to change

4. An Other take on the riddle of sex: excess, affect and gender complementarity

5. Paradox and play: the uses of enactment

I. The paradox is the thing

II. Enactment, play and the work

III. Putting music and lyrics together

6. Playing at the edge: negation, recognition and the lawful world

I. Beginning with No...and Yes

II. Trauma, violence and recognition of the Other (Me)

7. Beyond "Only one can live": witnessing, acknowledgment and the moral Third