-Lucid and convincing...Makes clear that Freud's] vision was limited both by the social climate in which he worked and the personal experiences he preferred, subconsciously, not to deal with.-
--Los Angeles Times

Sigmund Freud was quite arguably one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet, over the last decade, portions of his theories of the mind have suffered remarkably accurate attacks by feminists and even some conservative Freudians. How could this great mind have been so wrong about women?

In The Freudian Mystique, analyst Samuel...