Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities

Download or read book Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities written by Noreen O'Connor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.