The Practice of Love - Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire

In an eccentric reading of Freud through Laplanche and the Lacanian and feminist revisions, Teresa de Lauretis delineates a model of "perverse" desire and a theory of lesbian sexuality as represented in Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness, Cherrie Moraga's play Giving Up the Ghost and Sheila McLaughlin'es film She Must Be Seeing Things, among others.

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LESBIAN SEXUALITY

1. Freud, Sexuality, and Perversion

2. Female Homosexuality Revisited

PART TWO: ORIGINAL FANTASIES, SCENARIOS OF DESIRE

3. Recasting the Primal Scene: Film and Lesbian Representation

4. The Seductions of Lesbianism: Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory and the Maternal Imaginary

5. The Lure of the Mannish Lesbian: The Fantasy of Castration and the Signification of Desire

PART THREE: TOWARD A THEORY OF LESBIAN SEXUALITY

6. Perverse Desire

7. Sexual Structuring and Habit Changes

Works Cited

Films Cited

General Index

Index of Films Citied

About the author

Teresa de Lauretis is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema and Technologies of Gender and the editor of Feminist Studies/Critical Studies and of Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities (a special issue of the journal differences).

Summary

Re-reads Freud and articulates a fresh model of "perverse" desire.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa De Lauretis
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.1994
• EAN: 9780253208781
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20878-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 155 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 556 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories