Lesbians and Lesbianisms: A Post-Jungian Perspective

By Claudette Kulkarni

Book Overview

Claudette Kulkarni explores lesbian experience from a Jungian and feminist perspective, through interviews with women who see themselves as lesbians or who are in a lesbian relationship. Although a feminist treatment of the subject challenges the heterosexism of Jungian theory, the author presents a link between theory and experience that is consistent with both approaches. She concludes that when a woman finds herself loving another woman she is often responding to a profound psychological instinct to act, in spite of internal conflict or external opposition, and that this is a significant move in the service of personal and collective individuation and a movement toward achieving self-understanding

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041515510X
• ISBN13: 9780415155106
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent synthesis

For those who are interested, this is an excellent synthesis of recent theoretical perspectives on lesbianism.