num_pages: 316
description: 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.
language: English
title: Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
titlecomplete: Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
ratings_count: 3
series: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
publisher: Routledge