Psychoanalysis thus far has made extensive acquaintance with the psychology of women in only one type of culture. Facts observed in a particular part of the western world have been interpreted by Freud as an adequate basis for an understanding of female psychology in general and as evidence for a particular theory about specific biological factors in the nature of woman. Inferiority feelings and related characteristics which Freud considered to be specifically female and biologically determined can be explained, according to the author, as developments arising in and growing out of western woman's historic situation of underprivilege, restriction of development, insincere attitudes toward sex, and social and economic dependency, The author's conclusion may be quoted: 'The basic nature of woman is still unknown.'