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Most of this book's thirteen chapters previously appeared as articles in a variety of French journals; two more papers constitute appendices. The scope of the book is femininity broadly defined, encompassing a variety of problems in both female as well as male psychology. Brun writes with originality, aptly melding clinical and theoretical interests. She skillfully examines clinical observations in microscopic detail, then places them in the context of the theoretical contributions she develops. Ever respectful of the ambiguities of the analytic situation, she exemplifies the great attention to nuances of language, as well as the close reading of Freud, that characterize contemporary French psychoanalysis.
In her preface, Brun cites two sources for the papers in this book: first, her work on unconscious processes in parents whose children have been cured of cancer; second, material from her analytic practice that illuminates issues concerning femininity. She links these two sources of data by emulating Freud and studying unique instances of pathology (such as having a child cured of cancer) for what they tell us about more typical analytic material. She also