Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis (Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) - Softcover

O'Connor, Noreen; Ryan, Joanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 023110023X ISBN 13: 9780231100236

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 1998

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Book by OConnor Noreen Ryan Joanna

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Críticas:

Offers the first critical, systematic, and comprehensive survey of psychoanalytic writings on female homosexuality available in English... Remarkable not only for being the first such survey to appear in print, and for its sustained attention to both psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, but especially for its effort to work through Freudian psychoanalysis from a lesbian perspective, questioning and yet retaining both categories--psychoanalysis and lesbianism--in tension with each other... Immensely valuable. -- Teresa de Laurentis Journal of the History of Sexuality [This] exhaustive critical review of psychoanalytic theories about female homosexuality is a necessary reference tool for analytic therapists who want to understand the history and development of psychoanalytic thinking on the subject. Clinical Social Work Journal Ranks among the best of recent psychoanalytic work on same-sex object choice... Should prove of great interest to those who are interested primarily in lesbianism and to those who are concerned with the more general issues of the contours and limitations of psychoanalytic theory and discourse. Psychoanalytic Books

Reseña del editor:

Based on the author's clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, this reconsideration of lesbian lives and lesbian experiences offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologize or universalize all lesbianism, but instead argues for the development of a psychotherapeutic theory and practice open to the complexities and vicissitudes of individual life histories, relationships, and identities. Surveying a wide range of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbianism, O'Connor and Ryan critically address questions of sexual identity, sexual desire, and gender identity, of transference and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in relation to psychoanalytic training.

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 023110023X
• ISBN 13: 9780231100236
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 315