| Abstract: | Presents an obituary for Esther Menaker, who passed away on August 20, 2003. Esther influenced many students, colleagues, and patients and revolutionized psychoanalysis, psychology, and feminism with her innovative ideas on masochism, and her notions of the patient-doctor relationship as a relational, interactive dyad of mutual enrichment and growth. Esther was a prolific writer and thinker who embraced ego psychology early in her career and was was one of the first to focus on preoedipal dynamics and their influence in shaping subjectivity within the mother-infant dyad. Her work includes more than 45 articles and 6 books, and she continued to teach, write, and work with patients until her death. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
