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 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

About the Author

Claudette Kulkarni is a clinical therapist in private practice and at Persad Centre, Pittsburgh, a mental health center serving the lesbigay, transgendered, and HIV/AIDS communities and their families. She is a Contributing Editor to The Round Table Review of Contemporary Contributions to Jungian Psychology and an active member of the Association for Women in Psychology.