Lesbians and Lesbianisms

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