1. San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 1990. [BACK]

2. Millett, Sexual Politics; Greer, The Female Eunuch; Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex; and Figes, Patriarchal Attitudes. In “Freud and the Feminists” (Raritan 6, no. 4 [Spring 1987], pp. 43–61) I try to assess Freud’s feminist critics, like Millett and Greer, as well as his feminist defenders, like Juliet Mitchell and Nancy Chodorow. [BACK]

4. Frederick Crews, “Analysis Terminable,” Commentary, July 1980, pp. 33–34. [BACK]

5. Nina Auerbach, review of Charles Dickens and the Romantic Self, by Lawrence Frank, The New York Times Book Review, March 17, 1985, p. 43. [BACK]

6. E. M. Thornton, The Freudian Fallacy (New York, 1984), p. ix. [BACK]

7. Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated from the German under the general editorship of James Strachey (London, 1953–74), vol. XI, p. 39. [BACK]

8. In Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (New York, 1981) Janet Malcolm paints an unglamorous and dispiriting portrait of analytic practice in the 1980s—a gray, routinized medical subdiscipline that seems light-years removed from the adventurous, eventful therapeutic world conjured up in Freud’s famous case histories. [BACK]