The Practice of Love

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.