| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 407 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Superior guinea-pig : Bryher and psychoanalysis -- 2. The story of our lives becomes our lives -- 3. "She foreswore her womanhood" : psychoanalytic and biological theories of the etiology of female homosexuality" -- 4. Assaults and harrassments : the violent acts of theorizing lesbian sexuality -- 5. Coming out : the necessity of becoming a bee-charmer -- 6. Moratoriums and secrets : searching for the love of one's life -- 7. What sex is an amaryllis? What gender is lesbian? -- 8. When the psychoanalyst is a lesbian : "a certain idealization of heterosexuality" -- 9. Homosexuality and psychoanalytic training |
| Summary |
In this re-visioning of lesbianism, Magee and Miller focus on a set of inter-related issues: the developmental and psychological consequences of identifying as homosexual and of having lesbian relationships. Their consideration of these issues leads to a rigorous review of major psychoanalytic and biological theories about female homosexuality and a probing examination of current notions of gender identity. These tasks set the stage for Magee and Miller's own model of psychologically mature sexuality between members of the same sex |
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The developmental and clinical issues taken up in specific chapters of Lesbian Lives include the challenges facing lesbian adolescents; the psychological and social significance of "coming out"; the various meanings and context of coming out as a gay or lesbian analyst; the interaction of individual psyche and social context in clinical work with lesbian patients; and the history of homosexual therapists and psychoanalytic training. The chapter on "Bryher," the lesbian-identified life partner of the poet Hilda Doolittle (Freud's patient "H.D."), relying on unpublished documents, is not only a wonderful exemplification of themes developed throughout the work, but an invaluable contribution to psychoanalytic history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-396) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lesbianism -- Psychological aspects
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Women and psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis and homosexuality.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Homosexuality, Female -- psychology
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Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis
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Lesbianism -- Psychological aspects
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Psychoanalysis and homosexuality
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Women and psychoanalysis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Diana C., 1944-
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| ISBN |
9781134898664 |
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1134898665 |
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