Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities
Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Mental Health
| Author: | Noreen O'Connor, Joanna Ryan | ISBN: | 9780429924040 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | May 8, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Noreen O'Connor, Joanna Ryan |
| ISBN: | 9780429924040 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | May 8, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
