"A seminal text in the womenis movement."-Ethel S. Person, author of "The Sexual Century" "Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion."-Eli Sagan, author of "Freud, Women and Mortality" "["The Mermaid and the Minotaur"] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of its psychoanalytic approach even as its major ideas have become as unobtrusively essential to psychoanalytic feminism as the atmosphere."-Jessica Benjamin, author of "The Bonds of Love".