Volume 21, Number 15 · October 3, 1974

Freud and Women

By Christopher Lasch
Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing, and Women
by Juliet Mitchell

Pantheon, 435 pp., $8.95

Women and Analysis
edited by Jean Strouse

Grossman, 375 pp., $12.50

Psychoanalysis and Women
edited by Jean Baker Miller

Penguin (abridged edition), 418 pp., $2.95 (paper)

Recent movements for women's liberation have put Freud at the top of their Enemies List. 'Of all the factors that have served to perpetuate a male-oriented society,' writes Eva Figes in Patriarchal Attitudes, '…the emergence of Freudian psychoanalysis has been the most serious.'



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