Psychoanalysis has not, in recent years, fared well in the burgeoning field of feminist scholarship. Objections have been made to various notions of Freud and his proteges; among them, penis envy, female masochism, the vaginal (as opposed to the supposedly less mature and pre-genital clitoral) orgasm, and to the emphasis on intrapsychic conflict rather than situational, cultural, sociological and environmental factors in the formation of personality. That Freud's theories may be limited by their embeddedness in a particular culture is scarcely disputed by the most ardent of classical analysts. Flexibility in organizing, extending, and even revising the original theory has been demonstrated by a number of individual analysts, and by whole schools of analytic thought. Feminists have typically differed in their approach to the psychoanalytic paradigm; with few exceptions they have chosen