Lesbians and Lesbianisms

<p>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.<br> 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.<br> 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</p> Introduction; Chapter 1 PERSONAL CONFESSIONS; Chapter 2 “PAULA”; Chapter 3 FOREGROUNDING MY HORIZONS; Chapter 4 “ANN”; Chapter 5 DEBATES FROM LESBIAN LITERATURE; Chapter 6 “EILEEN”; Chapter 7 SAME-SEX LOVE IN DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY; Chapter 8 “SANDRA”; Chapter 9 WEAVING A RESEARCH DESIGN; Chapter 10 “JOAN”; Chapter 11 HERMENEUTICS AS METHODOLOGY; Chapter 12 “NANCY”; Chapter 13 “FINDINGS” AND REFLECTIONS;