1st Edition

That Obscure Subject of Desire Freud's Female Homosexual Revisited

Edited By Ronnie Lesser, Erica Schoenberg Copyright 1999
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

An interdisciplinary collection of papers on Freud's sixth and final case psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman. To date this case has received very little attention, which can be seen as a sign of the marginalization of lesbians in both psychoanalytic theory and culture. This text seeks to rectify this neglect, providing a forum where questions surrounding this case can be... Read more
Introduction, Ronnie C. Lesser; Part I The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman; Chapter 1 The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman ( )., Sigmund Freud; Part II Contributions from Academic Scholars; Chapter 2 Letter to an Unknown Woman, Teresa de Lauretis; Chapter 3 Fallen Women, Diana Fuss; Chapter 4 Who was that Girl?, John H. Gagnon; Chapter 5 Lying Dreams, Brenda Wineapple; Chapter 6 The Failure of Liberalism, David Woolwine; Part III Contributions from Psychoanalysts; Chapter 7 Designing the Lesbian Subject, Ann D’Ercole; Chapter 8 Las Mujeres, RoseMarie Pérez Foster; Chapter 9 Conduct Unbecoming, Carolyn C. Grey; Chapter 10 Gender as Contradiction, Adrienne Harris; Chapter 11 Freud, The Revival, Linda I. Meyers; Chapter 12 The Female Homosexual, Donald Moss, Lynne Zeavin; Chapter 13 Writing Sex, Erasing Race, Erica Schoenberg; Part IV Discussion; Chapter 14 Unfinished Business, Muriel Dimen;

Biography

Ronnie C. Lesser and Erica Schoenberg are psychoanalysts in private practice in New York City and Westchester. Dr. Lesser is co-editor of Disorienting Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Reappraisals of Sexual Identities (Routledge, 1995) and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy. Dr. Schoenberg is a book review editor for the same journal and a supervisor at the Institute for Human Identity.