The Phenomenology of Waiting
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The Editors
The Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
School of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Regents College
Inner Circle
Regents Park
London
NW1 4NS
July 31st, 2000
Dear Editors
RE: Letter for Publication.
I was interested to read the review of David Smith's book, Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course, in Volume 11.2 of the Journal. Initially interested as a former student of David's but then also because of the content.
With regard to the content, I was not surprised to find that David Smith has written a cogent and engaging, demystificatory text. This is what I have always valued about David's teaching - both as a student of his and more recently when I had the chance to ask him to come and teach on the course I now co-direct. It is the rest of the content that surprised me greatly. Although it was long, I thought it said remarkably little about David's book. A great deal of space was taken up with a conservative, essentialist rant against gay political perspectives (not lesbian and gay, I note, women's sexuality again being relegated to obscurity). As therapeutic stances to same-sex sexuality and the impact of socio-political contexts are of great interest to me, it is on this segment of the review that I would like to comment.
Although this review is published in the Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, I thought that there was a remarkable lack of attention to (or dare I say awareness of) a relational and constructionist perspective - core concepts that set an existential-phenomenological perspective aside. The reason that its omission is so grave is that in a relational or co-constructed world phenomena, words and experiences will generate multiple meanings dependent on the context. Henderson's naivete in this
