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Seshadri-Crooks (1994) highlights common feminist and post-colonial critiques of psychoanalysis by using the context of India to demonstrate that psychoanalysis requires revision. Throughout the article, the author draws upon the lacunae in Freudian psychoanalysis, as it pertains to the history of psychoanalysis and culture in India. Sashardi-Crooks uses Third World Feminism to think through the ways that traditional psychoanalysis lacked conceptualizing the female subject and the cultural worlds that colonial subjects inhabited.