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In these revisionist times, classical psychoanalytic constructions of femininity, long the focus of controversy and debate, give way to new formulations, new narrative models. Theorists who participate in this revisionist project seek to understand female development on its own terms, moving away from the masculine focus that entered into Freud's constructions of gender difference. In Electra vs Oedipus, the 2011 translation of her 1997 book, Hendrika C. Freud writes with a wisdom that is shaped by her therapeutic work with women, helping them understand the profound impact of their positioning as daughters in relation to their mothers and, often enough, in turn, as mothers to their daughters. Calling upon the cultural vocabulary of myth to modify classical psychoanalytic views of the centrality of Oedipus, Freud positions Electra as her mythic model, making the case for “the fateful struggle of Electra as a paradigm for conflicts in female development” (p. 3). Over the course of chapters that make steady use of clinical material to work out theoretical insights, while incorporating historical perspectives on motherhood, the myth of