Wild desires and mistaken identities : lesbianism and psychoanalysis / Noreen O'Connor and Joanna Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Noreen, 1946- author.

Ryan, Joanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--Psychology.

Lesbians.

Lesbianism--Psychological aspects.

Lesbianism.

Psychoanalysis and homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 lesbianism. A wide range of psychoanalytic ideas are surveyed, from Freud, Deutsch and Jung to Lacan and contemporary object-relations theorists. Questions on sexual identity, sexual desire and gender identity, of transference and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in relation to training, are all critically - and stimunlatingly - addressed."--Provided by publisher.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: London: Virago, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-92404-6

0-429-90981-0

0-429-48504-2

1-283-12593-5

9786613125934

1-84940-399-6

9780429485046

OCLC:

729166965