Lesbians and Lesbianisms

A Post-Jungian Perspective

Claudette Kulkarni

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780415155106
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134732234
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Claudette Kulkarni explores lesbian experience from a Jungian and feminist perspective, through interviews with women who see themselves as lesbians or who are in a lesbian relationship. Although a feminist treatment of the subject challenges the heterosexism of Jungian theory, the author presents a link between theory and experience that is consistent with both approaches. She concludes that when a woman finds herself loving another woman she is often responding to a profound psychological instinct to act, in spite of internal conflict or external opposition, and that this is a significant move in the service of personal and collective individuation and a movement toward achieving self-understanding

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents 
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Personal Confessions
• 2. “Paula”
• 3. Foregrounding My Horizons
• 4. “Ann”
• 5. Debates from Lesbian Literature
• 6. “Eileen”
• 7. Same-Sex Love in Depth Psychology
• 8. “Sandra”
• 9. Weaving a Research Design: Feminism, Gadamerian Hermeneutics, and Jungian Practice
• 10. “Joan”
• 11. Hermeneutics as Methodology
• 12. “Nancy”
• 13. “Findings” and Reflections
• Notes
• References
• Index