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Sex Changes
Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
Volume 10
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN A NEW KEY BOOK SERIES
DONNEL B. STERN
Series Editor
When music is played in a new key, the melody does not change, but the
notes that make up position do: change in the context of conti-
nuity, continuity that perseveres through change. “Psychoanalysis in a
New Key” publishes books that share the aims psychoanalysts have always
had, but that approach them diἀerently. The books in the series are not
expected to advance any particular theoretical agenda, although to this
date most have been written by analysts from the Interpersonal and
Relational orientations.
The most important contribution of a psychoanalytic book is -
munication of something that nudges the reader’s grasp of clinical theory
and practice in an unexpected direction. “Psychoanalysis in a New Key”
creates a deliberate focus on innovative and unsettling clinical thinking.
Because that kind of thinking is encouraged by exploration of the some-
times surprising contributions to psychoanalysis of ideas and findings
from other fields, “Psychoanalysis in a New Key” particularly encourages
interdisciplinary studies. Books in the series have married psychoanalysis
with dissociation, trauma theory, sociology, and criminology. The series is
open to the consideration of studies examining the relationship between
psychoanalysis and any other field – for instance, biology, literary and art
criticism, philosophy, systems theory, anthropology, and political theory.
But innovation also takes place within the boundaries of psychoanaly-
sis, and “Psychoanalysis in a New Key” therefore also presents work that
reformulates thought and practice without leaving the precincts of the
field. Books in the series focus, for example, on the significance of per-
sonal values in psychoanalytic practice, on plex interrelationship
between the analyst’s clinical work and personal life, on the consequenc