Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
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This groundbreaking book, based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism from Freud, Deutsch, Jung and Lacan to contemporary object-relations theorists, such as Klein and McDougall. Questions of sexual identity, sexual desire and gender identity, of transference and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in relation to training, are all critically -- and stimulatingly -- addressed. Booknews Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, this reconsideration of lesbian lives and experiences offers a new framework that does not inevitably pathologize all lesbianism, but instead argues for the development of a psychotherapeutic theory and practice open to the complexities of individual life histories, relationships, and identities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgements5Introduction91Freud: Disappointment and Repudiation302The Masculine Woman: Identification and Rivalry With the Father483The Child and the Mother: Deutsch and the Maternal/Erotic624Klein: The Phantasy That Anatomy Is Destiny735Spoiling the Perverse Gratification: Narcissism and Metapsychology846Truth and Reality: McDougall and Gender Identity1027Promises and Contradictions: Lacan and Language, Irigaray and Kristeva1348Jung: Eroticism and Countertransference1609Eroticism and Countertransference17410Different Voices? Sources of Dissent and Dialogue19211Identities: Mistaken, Assumed, Revealed Or Concealed?236Postscript264Notes275Bibliography297Index307
