Psychoanalytic revisionism is much with us these days. Feminists joined the chorus some years ago, not only challenging Freud's theories about how girls develop but raising questions about the ways he treated the women in his own personal and professional life. It is high time for a careful assessment of these interrelated issues, and the much praised book under consideration here undertakes to do just that.

The jacket identifies Lisa Appignanesi as a novelist, writer, and television producer; she has also been a university lecturer and deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Her books include a biography of Simone de Beauvoir and a history of