Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis

by Noreen O'Connor and Joanna Ryan

Book Overview

Based on the authors' clinical psychotherapy experience, this study of lesbian lives and experiences suggests a new framework which does not generalize all lesbianism. It seeks to develop psychotherapeutic practice which is open to individual life histories, relationships and identities. Surveying a wide range of psychoanalytical ideas concering lesbianism, from Freud to Jung and Lacan, the study addresses questions of sexual identity, sexual desire,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231100221
• ISBN13: 9780231100229
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.3"