Catherine Clement analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent operas -- Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and Magic Flute -- through the lenses of feminism and literary theory to unveil the negative messages about women in stories familiar to every opera listener.

A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become
"The Weary Sons of Freud" lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients condition. Gifted with insight and compelled by fury, Catherine Clement contrasts the original, inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the obsessive imitations of their uninspired followers the weary sons of Freud.
The analyst s once attentive ear has become deaf to the broader...