Research Catalog

Title

That obscure subject of desire : Freud's female homosexual revisited / edited by Ronnie C. Lesser and Erica Schoenberg.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lesser, Ronnie C.
• Schoenberg, Erica

Description

vi, 365 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
• Sex (Psychology)
• Lesbians
• Homosexuality
• Psychoanalysis
• Homosexuality, Female > psychology
• Freudian Theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: In the Shadow of Freud / Ronnie C. Lesser -- Pt. I. The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Women -- 1. The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman (1920) / Sigmund Freud -- Pt. II. Contributions from Academic Scholars -- 2. Letter to an Unknown Woman / Teresa de Lauretis -- 3. Fallen Women: "The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman" / Diana Fuss -- 4. Who Was That Girl? / John H. Gagnon -- 5. Lying Dreams / Brenda Wineapple -- 6. The Failure of Liberalism / David Woolwine -- Pt. III. Contributions from Psychoanalysts -- 7. Designing the Lesbian Subject: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards / Ann D'Ercole -- 8. Las Mujeres: Women Speak to the Word of the Father / RoseMarie Perez Foster -- 9. Conduct Unbecoming: Female Inversion and Social Disorder / Carolyn C. Grey -- 10. Gender as Contradiction / Adrienne Harris -- 11. Freud, The Revival / Linda I. Meyers -- 12. The Female Homosexual: C'est Nous / Donald Moss and Lynne Zeavin -- 13. Writing Sex, Erasing Race: Rereading Freud's Lesbian Dream / Erica Schoenberg -- Pt. IV. Discussion -- 14. Unfinished Business / Muriel Dimen.

ISBN

• 0415916704 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0415916712 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98041836

OCLC

• ocm39849444
• SCSB-4820080

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries