Lesbians and Lesbianisms: A Post-Jungian Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415155113 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str.

Claudette Kulkarni

Opis

Claudette Kulkarni explores lesbian experience from a Jungian and feminist perspective, through interviews with women who see themselves as lesbians or who are in a lesbian relationship.
Although a feminist treatment of the subject challenges the heterosexism of Jungian theory, the author presents a link between theory and experience that is consistent with both approaches.
She concludes that when a woman finds herself loving another woman she is often responding to a profound psychological instinct to act, in spite of internal conflict or external opposition, and that this is a significant move in the service of personal and collective individuation and a movement toward achieving self-understanding

Recenzje

'This is one of the most honest accounts I have ever come across - Kulkarni as a person is present within her words.' - A.S.I.I.P. 1998 Year Book

'To all readers who enjoy a rich weave of conceptual connections, I particularly recommend this book.' - The Round Table Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 PERSONAL CONFESSIONS; Chapter 2 “PAULA”; Chapter 3 FOREGROUNDING MY HORIZONS; Chapter 4 “ANN”; Chapter 5 DEBATES FROM LESBIAN LITERATURE; Chapter 6 “EILEEN”; Chapter 7 SAME-SEX LOVE IN DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY; Chapter 8 “SANDRA”; Chapter 9 WEAVING A RESEARCH DESIGN; Chapter 10 “JOAN”; Chapter 11 HERMENEUTICS AS METHODOLOGY; Chapter 12 “NANCY”; Chapter 13 “FINDINGS” AND REFLECTIONS;

O autorze

Claudette Kulkarni