# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jessica-benjamin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:27:18.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jessica-benjamin"
name: "Jessica Benjamin"
slug: "jessica-benjamin"
description: "Jessica Rachel Benjamin is a psychoanalyst known for her contributions to psychoanalysis and social thought. She is currently a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City where she is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Psychology Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. Jessica Benjamin is one of the original contributors to the fields of relational psychoanalysis, theories of intersubjectivity, and gender studies and feminism as it relates to psychoanalysis and society. She is known for her ideas about recognition in both human development and the sociopolitical arena."
tagline: "American psychoanalyst"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jessica_Benjamin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.459256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jessica Benjaminová"
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    title: "Jessica Benjamin"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump