... widely disseminated, even when they were not always labelled psychoanalytic. Richard Wollheim points out that psychologist Sigmund Freud's writings on art usually focussed on the psychology of critics, rather than on analyses of particular paintings or stories (Thurschwell 2000). However, Wollheim adopting an uncritical stance failed to acknowledge the strong reactions psychoanalysis had provoked particularly within the feminist movement during the nineteen seventies. The criticism aimed essentially towards Freud's analytic practice and his theories of sexuality. Wollheim states in the outset that the text will take the form of an exposition rather than an interpretation or evaluation of Freud's work. It does seem plausible to suggest that the text in fact can be described as a biography (Wollheim 1971) as it provides a detailed version of the 'life of a mind at work, and the story of a long and intricate process of discovery' (Wollheim 1971). It is at this point ...

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