Women in Twentieth-Century Literature: A Jungian View (review)
critic. Her approach here, although still in the Jungian spirit, eludes easy labels. Her citations show her supplementation of Jung by Ernest Becker, D. W. Winnicott, Enid Balint, Margaret Mahler, Dorothy Dinnerstein, and Alice Miller. She turns also to the work of Shirley and Edwin Ardener, Victor Turner, and Mary Douglas to shape a theory of social/symbolic space. For feminist theory she recurs to Adrienne Rich, Annis Pratt, Mary Daly, Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, and Carol GilliganÂ—about as catholic a list as is possible. Having cast her net wide for inspiration, Roberta Rubenstein succeeds in delivering a study of contemporary women's fiction that illuminates the ways in which women in different cultural situations experience and transform the boundaries of the self.