This work 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 the author's treatment of the subject challenges the heterosexism of Jungian theory, she presents a link between theory and experience that is consistent with both approaches. The author 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 act of individuation.