Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
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Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, this book provides a challenging exploration of the psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. The framework to the book draws on a philosophical concern with the assumptions about language, truth and knowledge underlying the substantive statements that psychoanalysts make about lesbians. The authors use a deconstructive and Foucouldian framework to argue for the development of a psychotherapeutic practice and theory which is open to the complexities and vicissitudes of individual life histories, relationships and identities, but which is not confined to universalist or fixed developmental systems.
Author: Noreen O'Connor
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 129mm x 200mm, 234 g
Published: 1993, Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom
Genre: Sex & Sexuality
Description
Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, this book provides a challenging exploration of the psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. The framework to the book draws on a philosophical concern with the assumptions about language, truth and knowledge underlying the substantive statements that psychoanalysts make about lesbians. The authors use a deconstructive and Foucouldian framework to argue for the development of a psychotherapeutic practice and theory which is open to the complexities and vicissitudes of individual life histories, relationships and identities, but which is not confined to universalist or fixed developmental systems.
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis