ampampquotLucid and convincing.Makes clear that Freuds vision was limited both by the social climate in which he worked and the personal experiences he preferred subconsciously not to deal with.ampampquotampampamp151Los 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 Slipp offers an explanation of how such a remarkable and revolutionary thinker could achieve only inadequate theories of female development.