![]() Specific tech- nical suggestions are made regarding analytic work with overwhelm. A detailed clinical example illustrates how overwhelm may make itself known in the clinical encounter, and how it can infiltrate the transference/countertransference. ![]() Overwhelm entails risk, and under some circumstances it may open up space toward significant psychic transformations. Overwhelm is a state of dysregulation that can be con- fused with, but is not the same as, repetition compulsion. When the psychic economy of the infantile sexual is followed to its apex, a particu- lar kind of state is produced that I call overwhelm-a word that is used here as a noun. ![]() Processes described in depth here suggest that passibility has ties to the rousing of infantile sexuality (Freud) and to the subject’s normative perversity (Laplanche). Limit con- sent involves a more nuanced negotiation of limits and becomes possible when the subject makes herself passible (Lyotard 1988) to an other-a condition that is neither active nor passive. This essay proposes limit consent, a concept that offers us different ways to think about the sexual-and about the analytic encounter. ![]() The concept of affirmative consent presumes a subject who is fully trans- parent to herself and who can anticipate the precise effects of her assent. You can purchase Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia via the above site, or wherever books are sold. ![]()
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