Sigmund Freudacirc;Aos ideas permeate our everyday thinking about life, love, gender, the family, and the relation between the sexes. These ideas took on their shape and substance in the same period that acirc;Authe woman questionacirc;Au became a burning issue. Sometimes championed as a liberator of women, Freud has also been virulently attacked for his theories of the feminine and for elevating his personal prejudices to the height of universal pronouncement.Freudacirc;Aos Women examines biography, case history, dreams, correspondence, journals, and theory to chart Freudacirc;Aos views on femininity. It also tells the many stories of Freudacirc;Aos women and explores their influence on him and his on them: dutiful daughter Anna, who carried on his work; the novelist and turn-of-the-century femme fatale, Lou Salomete Marie Bonaparte, who mixed royalty and perversity with effortless ease and became the head of the French psychoanalytic movement; the early hysterics who were the cornerstone of psychoanalysis--all these and more emerge vividly from the pages of this important study as it assesses Freudacirc;Aos contemporary legacy.acirc;AuA marvelously rich and engrossing work of intellectual history, deftly composed.acirc;Au-Richard Wollheim,The New York Times Book Reviewacirc;AuAn ambitious history of Freudacirc;Aos relationships with women--a lucid, sympathetic account.acirc;Au-Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Yearacirc;AuThis wonderful book is the tale of the great twentieth-century love affair with Freudian thought. It is an overblown historical romance that has at its centre the riddle of femininity itself.acirc;Au-Suzanne Moore,The Guardian
