Feminism and Psychoanalysis

Women Analyze Women: In France, England, and the United States
by Elaine Hoffman Baruch and Lucienne J. Serrano
New York University Press, 1988

The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
by Jessica Benjamin
Pantheon Books, 1988

Reconciling psychoanalytic theory with feminism is no easy task. These two books come to the rescue. In the first, Baruch and Serrano present us with interviews with women analysts from France, Britain,, and the United States, who not only tell how they use psychoanalytic theory in their analyses of women but also how they adapt psychoanalysis to a feminist orientation. At the same time, the int...