Wild desires and mistaken identities : lesbianism and psychoanalysis /

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This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologise or universalise all lesb...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Connor, Noreen, 1946-
Other Authors: Ryan, Joanna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Karnac, 1993 [reprinted 2003]
Subjects:
Lesbians > Psychology.
Lesbianism > Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis and homosexuality.
Lesbianisme > Aspect psychologique.
Psychanalyse et homosexualité.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Lesbian Studies.
Lesbianism > Psychological aspects
Lesbians > Psychology
Psychoanalysis and homosexuality
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; 1. FREUD: Disappointment and Repudiation; 2. THE MASCULINE WOMAN: Identification and Rivalry with the Father; 3. THE CHILD AND THE MOTHER: Deutsch and the Maternal/Erotic; 4. KLEIN: The Phantasy that Anatomy is Destiny; 5. SPOILING THE PERVERSE GRATIFICATION: Narcissism and Metapsychology; 6. TRUTH and REALITY: McDougall and Gender Identity; 7. PROMISES AND CONTRADICTIONS: Lacan and Language, Irigaray and Kristeva; 8. JUNG: The Waters and the Wild; 9. EROTICISM AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE; 10. DIFFERENT VOICES? Sources of Dissent and Dialogue.
  • 11. IDENTITIES: Mistaken, Assumed, Revealed or Concealed?POSTSCRIPT; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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