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This chapter studies the preoccupation with facial recognition technology (FRT) in the post-9/11 context. It considers claims of its technical neutrality by investigating the cultural logic that defined the technology and the practical politics that shaped system development. While the promise of facial recognition lay in its potential to individualize the terrorist threat by targeting specifically identified “terrorist” individuals, the effort to define it as a homeland security technology also made use of an implicit classifying logic, including rhetorical moves that reinforced old-fashioned notions of deviant facial types. Thus, the “facialization” of terrorism—defining non-state forms of political violence with recourse to the racist logic of a mythic and demonized facial type—was prevalent in discourse about FRT, appearing alongside claims about its technical neutrality.

This chapter serves as an overview of the influence of gender within the psychoanalytic situation. It first studies how the views on the determinants of transference and its interaction with countertransference, followed by a brief look at the assumption of penis envy is common and a basic of female psychology. An outline of the relationship of gender issues and sexuality and how these are changed during development is found in the next section. This chapter ends with a discussion of technical neutrality, the possibility that there is a difference in the analyst's treatment of female and male patients, and the analytic couple and the loving couple.

This chapter serves as a brief summary to the main areas of union and separation within the modern psychoanalytic technique. The discussion begins with the points of convergence, starting with transference, character analysis, and the “here and now”. It is followed by sections on the translation of unconscious conflicts to object relations terms, countertransference, the affective experience of the patient, the “royal road” in dream analysis, linear concepts of development, and the “transference cure”. The next half of the chapter concentrates on the divergences within modern psychoanalytic technique. This section covers the issues between transference and countertransference, the controversy surrounding the resistance and therapeutic aspects of regression, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and empathy. The chapter concludes with a discussion on technical neutrality, cultural bias, preverbal experiences, and “truth,” both historical and narrative.