Freud described female sexuality as receptive, claiming normal women could be only passive objects, not active subjects. With a nod to Luis Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire, Ronnie C. Lesser and Erica Schoenberg's collection of postmodernist essays argues against that position. The essays are a commentary on Freud's “The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman” (1920) “from both psychoanalysts and academic scholars”; according to Lester, “This is a much-needed conversation; psychoanalysts have long been isolated from scholars in other fields, and academicians are often not acquainted with the work of contemporary psychoanalysts” (p. 1). The book, she says, tries to show “the pivotal role” Freud's paper “played in the psychoanalytic theory of female homosexuality, the purposes that its biased views toward lesbians served, and the way that these biases became