Abstract
of oppression will grow? Feminist Soczl Psychology answers that question with a resounding 'yes'. Psychoanalytically inclined feminism, such as is represented in Sexual Contradictions, is much more equivocal. We cannot ignore our experience but neither can we view it as unambiguously transparent to reflection. The concept of the unconscious precludes such a notion of transparency. We need theoretical concepts as much as critical and shared self-reflection. However inadequate, psychoanalysis provides the base for such concepts. The authors of Feminist Social Psychology will not agree. Clearly, there are many points on which these two books are opposed, where different ideas are singled out as central or the same ideas are dealt with in conflicting ways. Psychology and psychoanalysis still find it hard to communicate, even in their feminist guises. On the other hand, the books share in common a commitment to understanding the subjective elements of oppression in ways that do not reduce our mental and emotional lives totally to social determinants. I find this an exciting development snd hope that the intervention of feminism in psychology will grow.
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