Preface
I have arranged this selection o
essays in three parts: essays and lectures o11 politics， literature
and psychoanalysis. To maintain the theme I have
occasionally broken the chronological order by a few months
And although I have situated each piece briefy in time ant
place， I have not atteinpted any self-criticism for that woulc
be another book.
I took my degree in English Literature and for ten years
taught literature to university students. During this period -
the 1960s - I was actively involved in politics， first in Marxist
politics around the New Left Review and then in the feminism
of the Women s Liberation Movement. I wrote both literary
and political articles. At the time I thought of my work as
going along separate but parallel lines. When I came to make
this selection， I could see retrospectively their points of
connection in inyself.
Not very consciously， as a child and as an adult， I had
always been held by a feeling that for the last three hundred
years - in English cultu re at least- our determining sensibility
had been about growing up， our relationship to ourselves in
time. ttow do we become ourselves -- men or women? This
preoccupation took in the question of femininity， of sexual
difference.
My first political interests were influenced by the Sartre
who claimed that since Freud， novel-writing was almost
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