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This 1928 paper, which has hitherto been untranslated into English, plays a part in the history of psychoanalysis. When Helene Deutsch first delivered it, she was the founding Director of the Training Institute of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
Psychoanalytic theories about femininity have been among the most controversial parts of Freud's legacy. As the first analyst to publish a book on women (1925), Helene Deutsch has taken her share of the criticism for the import of Freud's outlook. In making the subject of women her speciality, Helene Deutsch felt she had to come to terms with the life of George Sand. With the inevitable limitations of such a pioneering application of psychoanalysis to a non-clinical subject, the article is a precursor to what today comes under the heading of psycho-history.