Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis Noreen O'Connor creator Joanna Ryan A01 Oxford Routledge 20031201 1 g eng 316 p This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologise or universalise all lesbianism. A wide range of psychoanalytic ideas are surveyed, from Freud, Deutsch and Jung to Lacan and contemporary object-relations theorists. Questions on sexual identity, sexual desire and gender identity, of transference and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in relation to training, are all critically - and stimunlatingly - addressed. 9781855753303 Taylor & Francis 01 250312 20250317100421.0 1855753308