Lesbians and Lesbianisms: A Post-Jungian Perspective

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 i...