--- title: "4 Jessica Benjamin Quotes" description: "Jessica Benjamin has 4 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ce/jessica-benjamin-70705_life_t-he-psychoanalytic-process-should-be-un_1821682.jpg" --- # Jessica Benjamin **4** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Jessica Benjamin > [ “\[T\]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. Mental life is seen from an intersubjective… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-benjamin/t-he-psychoanalytic-process-should-be-understood-as-occurring-between/) [Jessica Benjamin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-benjamin/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ce/jessica-benjamin-70705_life_t-he-psychoanalytic-process-should-be-un_1821682.jpg) > [“Beauty belongs to the beloved who returns the gaze, in whose eyes we see the sun. But in this . . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-benjamin/beauty-belongs-to-the-beloved-who-returns-the-gaze-in-whose-eyes-we/) [Jessica Benjamin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-benjamin/) [Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b3/jessica-benjamin-70705_beauty_beauty-belongs-to-the-beloved-who-return_1853424.jpg) > [“All that is bad and dreaded is projected into the other, and all the anxiety is seen as the product of external…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-benjamin/all-that-is-bad-and-dreaded-is-projected-into-the-other-and-all-the/) [Jessica Benjamin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-benjamin/) [Anxiety](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxiety/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0d/jessica-benjamin-70705_anxiety_all-that-is-bad-and-dreaded-is-projected_2176804.jpg) > [ “In the most common fantasy of ideal love, \[...\], a woman can only unleash her desire in the hands of a man… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-benjamin/in-the-most-common-fantasy-of-ideal-love-a-woman-can-only-unleash-her/) [Jessica Benjamin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-benjamin/) [Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/434/jessica-benjamin-70705_desire_in-the-most-common-fantasy-of-ideal-love_2891341.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-benjamin/#itemlist", "name": "Jessica Benjamin Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“[T]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. 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