cover image Freud, Women, and Morality

Freud, Women, and Morality

Eli Sagan. Basic Books, $11 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-465-02572-5

Refuting Freud's viewpoint of women as sexist, Sagan also contends that conscience, formed during the time a child is under the guardianship of a mother or some other caretaker, has primacy over the superego. ``This brilliant study is a sweeping reappraisal of psychoanalysis and the way we think about morals,'' praised PW. (Aug.)