On intimate terms : the psychology of difference in lesbian relationships /
On Intimate Terms looks at the internal logic of lesbian relationships, arguing that they are not patterned after heterosexual ones but rely on the interplay of psychosexual differences between women. The book suggests that everyone seeks psychic complementarity with an Other in intimate relationshi...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Lesbians and Lesbian Lovers: Finding One an Other. 1. Thinking about Love and Lovers. 2. Other Love: Identities and Attractions. 3. The Road Not Taken. 4. The Psychological Function of Relationships. 5. Unconscious Conversations
- 2. Invisible Cords: Complementarity. 6. Psychosexual Interests: Past, Present, and Future. 7. Deviant Selves and Different Selves. 8. What Gender Signifies. 9. Gender Devices and Desires. 10. Literary Illusions
- 3. Re-Viewing Traditional Views. 11. The Rest of the World in Love. 12. Clinical Meanings and Further Directions.