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Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis Author:Noreen O'Connor, Joanna Ryan 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 a... more »nd gender identity, of transference and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in relation to training, are all critically -- and stimulatingly -- addressed.« less