TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Connor,Noreen
AU  - Ryan,Joanna
TI  - Wild desires & mistaken identities: lesbianism and psychoanalysis 
T2  - Between men--between women : lesbian and gay studies
SN  - 0231100221
AV  - HQ75.5. O36 1993
U1  - 155.34 
PY  - 1993///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Lesbianism
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Psychoanalysis and homosexuality
N1  - "First published in the United Kingdom by Virago Press in 1993."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index; 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: Eroticism and Countertransference -- 9. Eroticism and Countertransference -- 10. Different Voices? Sources of Dissent and Dialogue -- 11. Identities: Mistaken, Assumed, Revealed Or Concealed?
N2  - Based on the authors' 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. Instead, it 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 from Freud, Deutsch, and Jung to Lacan and contemporary object relations theorists including Klein and McDougall, 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
ER  -