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When Freud wrote his Studies of Hysteria in 1893, he described a type of woman with prospects very different from those of the average psychoanalytic patient of today. In this country women occupy a unique position and are probably freer to live their own lives than in any patriarchal country of the world. Increasingly, a woman finds herself without an occupation and with an unsatisfactory emotional life. There is, however, an increasing tendency in and out of marriage to have a sexual life approximating in its freedom that enjoyed by the male. Three frequently encountered types of reaction to the current situation are described: women who marry and try to live according to the old pattern, but find themselves unemployed and often discontented; women who work and do not marry; and women who marry and engage in serious work outside the home. Some of the basic conflicts described by Freud are still encountered, although the emphasis is different. Then the girl who wished to be a boy had recourse only to symbolic expression in the form of hysterical fantasies. Today she may live out the fantasies, at least in part.