Discussion: Janine de Peyer’s “Unspoken Rhapsody: Female Erotic Countertransference and the Dissociation of Desire”

Abstract

This paper discusses Janine de Peyer’s paper on erotic countertransference, “Unspoken Rhapsody: Female Erotic Countertransference and the Dissociation of Desire,” from the perspective of ontological and relational models of treatment. Its argument also draws on the work of Laplanche on sexuality, enigmatic seduction and the radical alterity of human sexuality.