... of are men; to those of you who are women this will not apply - you are yourselves the problem".1 He believes that women's constant need for attention and attention from their parents -and in later life, their husbands- leads them to have illnesses, which "are the result of intentions"2, albeit unconsciously. His cure for such hysteria is through psychoanalysing the patient and convincing the patient of this 'fact'. Freud's theory of psycho-sexual development and its effects as pertaining to female psychology has been rejected by some theorists such as Simone de Beauvoir for being too superficial in its claims and assumptions. However, she is also equally guilty of making similar mistakes as her own criticisms are based upon and reflective of a shallow and selective reading of Freud's own work Freud redefines the perceptions of sexuality during his time, and "rewrites the history of sexual development"3. According ...

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