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Joyce McDougall has given us another book spanning the range of topics that are the focus of her earlier books: femininity and sexuality, sexuality and creativity, somatization and unsymbolized sexual conflicts, “neosexualities” and deviations of heterosexual and homosexual desire, and perversions.
In this volume, the author builds on her previous work in these areas, adding the spin of an important social dimension. This is a politically correct book in which the bisexual components in everybody are recognized, the phallocentric notion of perversion as the exclusive province of men is discarded, and the homosexualities, like various heterosexualities, are given due respect in a call for the psychoanalyst's neutrality in their treatment. In this particular call for neutrality, the book is also psychoanalytically correct.
Part I, on femininity and sexuality, elaborates on the universal homosexual components in heterosexual women. McDougall openly discloses her own bisexual fantasies that affect her work as a woman analyst. One of her purposes in so doing is to encourage all women analysts to do the same in their psychoanalytic work