Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities : Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis.
Title:
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities : Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis.
Author:
O'Connor, Noreen.
ISBN:
9781849403993
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (319 pages)
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.
Abstract:
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 lesbiansim. 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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