What is the Relation between the Psychoanalytic Psychology of Women and Psychoanalytic Feminism?

This paper is about communication, or the lack of it, among people who write and think about psychoanalysis and women. ¹ On one side, among psychoanalysts debate about women and femininity has become a topic of burgeoning interest in recent years. On the other side, psychoanalytic feminists —academic literary critics, philosophers, social scientists, feminist epistemologists —engage in a distinctly different set of discourses, about different questions.