ABSTRACT
How to begin this book? I simply want to lay out the position women have found themselves in down the centuries and to create a template on which to explore the new attempt by anatomists, fin de siècle, to reconsider the biological interpretation of our make-up. Of course, here this concerns only the anatomy of the clitoris and a woman is made up of much more than this. But this aspect of woman may be extremely relevant not only socially but specifically in drawing together and developing psychoanalytic theory, my main aim of the book. What has happened is that the history of the development of knowledge of the female in other disciplines over history, and including psychoanalysis, has been governed by social and cultural mores and then suppressed.
