ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author quote Freud's lecture on femininity, as he refers to the transference of the woman's maternal relationship to her husband. The determinants of women's choice of an object are often made unrecognizable by social conditions. Certainly the woman might transfer her hostility from mother to husband. In a marital regression, both partners might transfer experiences of early childhood, with either parent, to their partner. Young woman in America has had sexual experiences that have permitted her to be aware of her patterns of sexual excitement, her conditions for obtaining pleasure, and her demands for the achievements of her partner, be the relationship heterosexual or homosexual. In thinking about Freud's opinions about women—leaving aside the historical constraints of the times—the author wonder whether he succeeded in describing and adopting women's own defensive positions.
