Research Catalog

Title

Lesbians and lesbianisms : a post-Jungian perspective / Claudette Kulkarni.

Author

Kulkarni, Claudette, 1944-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Details

Description

x, 246 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Claudette Kulkarni's study of lesbianism explores lesbian experience from both a feminist and Jungian standpoint. Her feminist interpretation challenges the heterosexism embedded in Jungian theory, yet Kulkarni is able to demonstrate that there are links between theory and experience and common ground between Jung and feminism. Using a methodology anchored in Gadamer's hermeneutics, Kulkarni bridges theory and experience by grounding theory in experience rather than by trying to make experience conform to theory.

Subject

• Lesbianism > Psychological aspects
• Lesbians > Psychology
• Jungian psychology
• Homosexuality, Female > psychology
• Jungian Theory
• Jungian psychology
• Lesbianism > Psychological aspects
• Lesbians > Psychology
• Lesbische Orientierung
• Analytische Psychologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-237) and index.

Contents

Personal confessions -- "Paula" -- Foregrounding my horizons -- "Ann" -- Debates from lesbian literature -- "eileen" -- Same-sex love in depth psychology -- "Sandra" -- Weaving a research design: feminism, Gadamerian hermeneutics, and Jungian practice -- "Joan" -- Hermeneutics as methodology -- "Nancy" -- "Findings" and reflections.

ISBN

• 041515510X
• 9780415155106
• 0415155118
• 9780415155113

LCCN

96052975

OCLC

• ocm36121813
• 36121813
• SCSB-14692219

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library