| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Judith M. Hughes. Freudian Analysts/Feminist Issues. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 222. $35.00.

This book is less a history of psychoanalysis, as the author contends, than a distinctive mapping of psychoanalytic theories of female sexuality and gender. For specialists in this area, the cast of characters will be familiar: Helene Deutsch, Erik H. Erikson, Carol Gilligan, Karen Horney, Robert J. Stoller, Nancy Chodorow, and Melanie Klein. Judith M. Hughes summarizes their respective and well-known contributions and concludes with her own. Sigmund Freud also figures prominently in Hughes's presentation, but more as the authoritative point of reference than as a subject in his own right. For readers unfamiliar with the founder's writings on psychoanalysis, this book will not furnish the background necessary to appreciate Hughes's project. 1

The originality of the book rests mainly on its framework: namely, the notion of science as a selection process. Working from this premise, Hughes presents the cast of characters as part of a lineal history of Freudian ideas as well as members of particular psychoanalytic communities. With these two factors in mind, she evaluates the way each participated in a dialogue that spans the twentieth century to construct his or her particular theory of sexuality and gender. . . .

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