Cover -- Lesbians And Lesbianisms -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Questions of Terminology -- A Truly Brief Introduction to Hermeneutics -- The Hermeneutic Circle -- Something About the Interviews -- An Overview of What is to Come -- Chapter 1: Personal Confessions -- On Confession -- My Connection to My Subject Matter -- On Being Post-jungian -- On Being a Feminist Jungian -- My Secret Hope to Deconstruct Jungian Heterosexism -- My Quest For a Thoroughly Feminist Jungian Methodology -- Chapter 2: "Paula" -- Profile -- Interview Setting/Process -- The Interview -- My Experience of the Interview -- Chapter 3: Foregrounding My Horizons -- On Foregrounding -- Jung on Preunderstanding -- My Philosophical Horizons -- Choosing the Margin -- Embracing the Spirit of Pluralism -- My Theoretical Horizons -- Lesbian Experience as Consensus Gentium -- Lesbian Experience as Personal and Collective Individuation -- Lesbian Experience as Refusal to Be Possessed By Normalcy -- Lesbian Experience as an Expression of the Transcendent Function -- Lesbian Experience as Embodied Soul -- Lesbian Experience: "the Masculine" and Other Irrelevancies -- Lesbian Experience as a "coniunctio" of Likes -- Chapter 4: "Ann" -- Profile -- Interview Setting/Process -- The Interview -- My Experience of the Interview -- Chapter 5: Debates From Lesbian Literature -- "Lesbian" As a Category of Identity -- The Essentialists -- The Social Constructionists -- The Interactionists/Synthesizers -- The Postmodernists/Poststructuralists -- Conclusion: A Pluralistic "solution" -- Definitions of "Lesbian" -- Conclusion: Another Pluralistic "solution" -- Chapter 6: "Eileen" -- Profile -- Interview Setting/Process -- The Interview -- My Experience of the Interview -- Chapter 7: Same-Sex Love in Depth Psychology.

Jungian Conceptualizations of Same Sex love -- Jung on Same-sex Love -- Jungians on Same-sex Love -- The Conservators -- The Reformulators -- The Radicals -- From Psychoanalytic Literature -- The Differing Tasks of Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology -- Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Lesbianism -- Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities -- Lesbians and Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 8: "Sandra" -- Profile -- Interview Setting/Process -- The Interview -- My Experience of the Interview -- Chapter 9: Weaving A Research Design: Feminism, Gadamerian Hermeneutics, and Jungian Practice -- What Distinguishes Feminist Research? -- Epistemology: Feminist and Transitional -- A Framework for a Feminist Epistemology -- An Epistemology Without a Name -- Subject Matter: Lesbian Experience -- Framing The Problematic: My Question -- Locating The Researcher: Horizons and Prejudices -- Method: Interviews -- Selection of Participants -- Interview Process -- Process Used in Writing Narratives -- A Note About the Interviewee as "text" -- Methodology: Gadamerian Hermeneutics and Jungian Practice -- Chapter 10: "Joan" -- Profile -- Interview Setting/Process -- The Interview -- My Experience of the Interview -- Chapter 11: Hermeneutics as Methodology -- Locating Gadamer Among The Major Strands of Contemporary Hermeneutics -- Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Jung's Praxis -- Gadamer on Methodology and Truth -- Jung on Methodology and Truth -- Jung and Jungians on Hermeneutics -- Some Common Ground Between Gadamer and Jung -- 1 The Dialectical Character of Understanding -- Jung on the Dialectical Character of Understanding -- 2 Linguisticality -- Jung on Language -- 3 Self-understanding -- Jung on Self-understanding -- 4 Tradition, Historicity, and Subjectivity -- Jung on Tradition, History, and Subjectivity -- 5 An Attitude of Openness and Good Will.

Jung on Openness and Good Will -- 6 The Priority of the Question -- Jung on Questions and Not Knowing -- 7 Agreement and 'the Fusion of Horizons' -- Jung on Agreement and Horizons -- Postscript: Feminist Critiques of Gadamer -- Contemporary Thinking on Hermeneutics as a Research Methodology -- Interpretive Inquiry and the Question of Reliability and Validity -- The Evaluation of Interpretive Accounts -- Chapter 12: "Nancy" -- Profile -- Interview Setting/Process -- The Interview -- My Experience of the Interview -- Chapter 13: "Findings" and Reflections -- Reflections on Interview Themes -- 1 Desire to Provide a Contex -- 2 View of Lesbian Experience as a Series of Choices -- 3 Contrasting the Experience of Loving Women to the Experience of Loving Men -- 4 Impact on Sense of Self -- 5 Sense of Community -- 6 Desire for Acceptance -- Re-visiting Some of My Horizons And Hunches -- Consensus Gentium -- Personal and Collective Individuation -- A Refusal to be Possessed by Normalcy -- An Expression of the Transcendent Function -- Embodied Souls -- The "masculine" and Other Irrelevancies -- A Coniunctio of Likes -- Revisiting Some of My Personal Confessions -- Concerning My Hope to Deconstruct Heterosexism in Jungian Theory -- Concerning My Quest for a Methodology -- Concerning the Social Relevance and Political Value of This Project -- In Conclusion -- Notes -- Personal Confessions -- Foregrounding My Horizons -- Debates From Lesbian Literature -- Same-Sex Love In Depth Psychology -- Weaving A Research Design: Feminism, Gadamerianhermeneutics, And Jungianpractice -- Hermeneutics As Methodology -- "Findings" And Reflections -- References -- Index.