I: Part I; Introduction: psychoanalysis and the unconscious; 1: Freud: the rejection of femininity; 2: Klein: phantasy and the mother; 3: Winnicott: the ‘good enough' mother; 4: Lacan: the meaning of the phallus; 5: Feminist interpretations; 6: Conclusions; II: Part II; 7: Sigmund Freud, Femininity' (1933); 8: Melanie Klein, ‘A Study of Envy and Gratitude' (1956); 9: Donald Winnicott, from ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena' (1971); 10: Jacques Lacan, ‘The Meaning of the Phallus' (1958); 11: Julia Kristeva, from ‘Woman's Time' (1981); 12: Luce Irigaray, from Speculum of the Other Woman (1985)