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Due in large part to Kate Millet's attack on Freud in her influential second wave text Sexual Politics, psychoanalysis has traditionally been viewed as irredeemablely patriarchial in many US circles. Yet with the 1976 publication of Juliet Mitchell's Psychoanalysis and Feminism, some began to reevaluate this position, especially in the area of film studies. In the US, feminists writing in the object-relations tradition of psychoanalysis (as opposed to Lacan) like Nancy Chodorow have been the most successful in gaining a wide audience. --Hedges