The paper explains three schools of psychoanalytic feminist thought: the Lacanian approach, the sexual difference approach, and the object relations approach, and examines their similarities and differences. For instance, the sexual difference school of French and Italian psychoanalytic feminism builds on a Lacanian foundation rectified to accommodate a more independent feminine imaginary, while object relations feminism situates the development of gender in the pre-educational phase. This suggests that women have more firmly established gender identities than men. Butler's idea that gender is interpretative in relation to unconscious masculine and feminine imaginary structured by heterosexual norms appears as a post-structuralist variant of psychoanalytic feminism. The political implications of all these approaches are indicated, and the author presents her own modification of psychoanalysis to address Gent's historical differences between women, as well as the political effects of masculine and feminine subjectivity from the perspective of feminist political organization.