Lesbians and Lesbianisms

A Post-Jungian Perspective

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Also available in Hardback and e-Book
  • Published: September 1997
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-15511-3
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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