Wild desires and mistaken identities : lesbianism and psychoanalysis / Noreen O'Connor and Joanna Ryan.

Lesbianism and psychoanalysis

London : Virago Press, 1993.

viii, 315 pages ; 20 cm

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.

Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: Vex

Introduction -- Freud: Disappointment and repudiation -- The masculine woman: Identification and rivalry with the father -- The child and the mother: Deutsch and the maternal/erotic -- Klein: The phantasy that anatomy is destiny -- Spoiling the perverse gratification: Narcissism and metapsychology -- Truth and reality: McDougall and gender identity -- Promises and contradictions: Lacan and language, Irigaray and Kristeva -- Jung: The waters and the wild -- Erotocism and countertransference -- Different voices? sources of dissent and dialogue -- Identities: Mistaken, assumed, revealed, or concealed? -- Postscript.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.