Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities

Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis

Noreen O'Connor, Joanna Ryan

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429924040
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Psychology
• Categoría: Mental Health in Psychology

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.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• 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