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Although Sigmund Freud often presented psychoanalysis as a “discovery,” its extension by later generations of analysts has demonstrated that the territory of the Freudian unconscious, focused as it was on the triangular oedipal drama, was a construction of Freud's own making. The field's preoedipal and relational turns—as well as feminist, gay/lesbian, and other critiques—have significantly enriched and extended the breadth and depth of psychoanalytic practice and theory. In recent years, the emergent field of Freud studies has increased our understanding of the personal travails and cultural context that shaped Freud's journey and molded his thinking. To these explorations, Diane O'Donoghue has now added On Dangerous Ground: Freud's Visual Cultures of the Unconscious,