ABSTRACT
Popular reactions to Freud during the first half of this century often focused on what he had to say about sexuality and he was often assumed to be advocating uninhibited sexual expression. This was welcomed by radicals and condemned by conservatives. Teaching psychoanalytic ideas to undergraduates now, I find Freud most frequently condemned as a conservative: he is not sympathetic to homosexuality; he does not understand, and disapproves of, female sexuality; he overemphasises the body and the way it limits us.
