Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis

"Ranks among the best of recent psychoanalytic work on same-sex object choice. The book does not propose a general theory of lesbian development or dynamics. Instead, it undertakes the more basic task of showing that psychoanalytic discourse, up to the present day and almost without exception . . . is incapable of conceiving lesbianism as anything but perverse, unnatural. . . . Thus it is essentially a critique of psychoanalytic theory, and, as such, it should prove of great interest to those who are interested primarily in lesbianism and to those who are concerned with the more general issues of the contours and limitations of psychoanalytic theory and discourse."O'Connor, Noreen is the author of 'Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis', published 1998 under ISBN 9780231100236 and ISBN 023110023X.