Research Catalog

Title

Sexualities lost and found : lesbians, psychoanalysis, and culture / edited by Edith Gould, Sandra Kiersky.

Publication

Madison, Conn. : International Universities Press, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gould, Edith.
• Kiersky, Sandra.

Description

xiv, 307 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Lesbianism > Psychological aspects
• Lesbians > Counseling of
• Psychoanalysis and homosexuality
• Psychoanalysis
• Homosexuality, Female > psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• psychoanalysis
• Lesbianism > Psychological aspects
• Lesbians > Counseling of
• Psychoanalysis and homosexuality

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Edith Gould and Sandra Kiersky -- Pt. I. Introduction: From Theory Construction to the Lived Experience -- 1. Gender Identity and Creativity: From Inhibition to Inspiration / Joyce McDougall -- 2. Exiled Desire: The Problem of Reality in Psychoanalysis and Lesbian Experience / Sandra Kiersky -- 3. Body Language: Reflections on the Homoerotics of the Female Dyad in Psychoanalysis / Edith Gould -- 4. Transforming the Ties That Bind: Lesbians, Lovers, and Chosen Family / Ellen Shumsky -- 5. A Barrenness of Body and Theory: An Analysis of Infertility / Donna Bassin -- 6. Across the Great Divide: Gender Panic in the Analytic Dyad / Jack Drescher -- Pt. II. Theoretical: Deconstructing the Myth of a Lesbian Identity -- 7. Desire in Intersubjective Systems and Contexts / Donna M. Orange -- 8. Category Problems: Lesbians, Postmodernism, and Truth / Ronnie C. Lesser -- 9. Revisioning the "Fleshy Origins of Subjectivity": De Lauretis and Grosz on Lesbian Desire / Erica Schoenberg -- 10. Straight Talk from Heinz Kohut: The De-Erotization of the Homosexual Subject / Virginia L. Blum -- Pt. III. The Impact of Culture -- 11. Postmodern Ideas about Gender and Sexuality: The Lesbian Woman Redundancy / Ann D'Ercole -- 12. Talking About Lesbians: Minnie Bruce Pratt and Her Poetic Journey / Arlene Kramer Richards -- 13. It's a Queer Universe: Some Notes Erotic and Otherwise / Adria E. Schwartz -- 14. Daring Desire: Lesbian Sexuality in Popular Music / Shara Sand -- 15. Lesbian Mothers: A Foot in Two Worlds / Deborah F. Glazer -- Pt. IV. Twenty-Five Years of Psychoanalysis in the Lesbian Community -- 16. From Baby Boom to Gayby Boom: Twenty-Five Years of Psychoanalysis in the Lesbian Community / Lee Crespi -- 17. A Postmodern Comparative Study of Figure Drawings of Lesbian and Heterosexual Women: A Tribute to Ted Riess and Ralph Gundlach / Suzanne Iasenza and Sheldon Waxenberg.

ISBN

• 9780823660629
• 0823660621

LCCN

2001016859

OCLC

• ocn123149675
• 123149675
• SCSB-1230276

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library