Reply to Panel Follow-up Questions

  • Kenneth Lewes and Noreen O'Connor share little common ground in their discussions of Lesbian Lives. They agree that it represents, in Lewes's words, >important trends in psychoanalysis and more general intellectual discourse< (>the developing discourse on homosexuality, the ascendancy of feminist ideas within psychoanalysis, … the shift … from classical drive theory to … more … relational approaches, and the influence of postmodern social and literary thought<). But whereas O'Connor welcomes a text she sees as offering >critiques of traditional psychoanalysis's binary theorising of gender and sexuality,< Lewes finds that Lesbian Lives presents >certain questions and difficulties, especially to those who, like myself, espouse theoretical and political allegiances quite different from them.< This article responds to several of Lewes's distortions and misreadings, including his allegations that the authors believe they can >conduct therapy without theory or value< and that they >insist on the essential sameness of people who are heterosexual and homosexual.< Lewes also wrongly attributes to the authors a simplistic belief in >sexual fluidity< and the >multiplicity of selves.< Instead, the text of Lesbian Lives in various ways encourages psychoanalysis to incorporate into its developmental models what it has learned clinically about the multiple dimensions of subjective experience.

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Author:Maggie Magee, Diana C. Miller
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 151-158.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2001
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Magee_M_Miller_D_C_2001
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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