Why Are Men Winning the Psychoanalytic Race? A Commentary on Inna Rozentsvit’s Paper, “Women’s Voices in Psychoanalysis”

Inna Rozentsvit’s paper highlights the systematic marginalization of feminine contributions in psychoanalytic theory, a pattern of erasure that extends well beyond this discipline alone. Modern art is filled with names like Picasso, Manet, Monet, Matisse, Dali, Duchamp, Pollack, De Kooning, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Schnabel, Salle, Haring, Basquiat, and Koons. They are all male. The list of major female artists is paltry in comparison, and after Georgia O’Keeffe, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Elizabeth Murray, and Frida Kahlo, the list fades quickly.